Yasunari Kawabata
About the person
Career:
Writing
Date of birth:1899-06-14
Place of birth:Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Gender:Male
Popularity:1
Date of death1972-04-16
72Biography
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.