Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

personal-info

known-for

Writing

gender

Male

birthday

1899-06-14

place-of-birth

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

also-known-as

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.