Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
- Born
- 1899-06-14
- Place of birth
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 1972-04-16
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.
