Yasunari Kawabata

Acting

Born

June 14, 1899

Place of Birth

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Deceased

April 16, 1972

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.

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