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 Classification
Original Language Connections
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, nationality there.
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Yasunari Kawabata
Lead section, birth date
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.
Original language statement
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.
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