Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer who lived from 1899 to 1972, awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature for spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose that made him the first Japanese author to win the award. His fiction, marked by restraint and sensitivity to mood and season, achieved broad international appeal that has kept his work widely read since his death.
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AwardNobel Prize in Literature (1968) 1 Form Mostly Written Major PrizeNobel Prize in Literature 2 Classification
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11 June 1899
Lead section, birth year
11 June 1899
Infobox, death date
16 April 1972
Infobox, death year
16 April 1972
Nobel Prize section, award
Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on 16 October 1968, the first Japanese person to receive such a distinction.
- Article categories: Category:20th-century Japanese male novelists
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Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer who lived from 1899 to 1972, awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature for spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose that made him the first Japanese author to win the award.
View the Source2. Treccani (Enciclopedia Italiana): Yasunari Kawabata - Enciclopedia Treccani
Treccani (Enciclopedia Italiana)Entry text
("Scena di una cerimonia dei defunti", 1921) e iniziato a scrivere i brevissimi racconti poi conosciuti come tanagokoro shÅsetsu (trad. it. Racconti in palmo di mano, 1990). Di poco posteriore è Izu no odoriko ("La ballerina di Izu", 1926), racconto tra i più suggestivi dove K. introduce uno dei su
Entry text, major prize
a to kanashimi (1963; trad. it. Bellezza e tristezza, 1985). Nel 1968 gli fu conferito il premio Nobel per la letteratura. Morì suicida. © Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani - Riproduzione riservata
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