Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi], 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

Notable works: The Dancing Girl of Izu, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, The Old Capital, The House of the Sleeping Beauties, The Sound of the Mountain Awards: Kikuchi Kan Prize, Japan Art Academy Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Officer of Arts and Letters, Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit, Mainichi Publication Culture Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class Education: University of Tokyo

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