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Yasunari Kawabata

Date of birth: 1899-06-14

Place of birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Known for: Writing

Also known as:

Yasunari Kawabata

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.