Yasunari Kawabata

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.