
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.