Person
Yasunari Kawabata
- Specialty
- Writing
- Birth
- June 14, 1899 · 72 years
- Death
- April 16, 1972
- Origin
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Professional Trajectory
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.
