
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1899-06-14
Deathday
1972-04-16
Place of Birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Yasunari Kawabata
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.