Yasunari Kawabata

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Biography: Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

Department: Writing

Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Adult: No

Birthday: June 14, 1899

Age: 125 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: April 16, 1972

Popularity:

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Known For:

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata