Yasunari Kawabata
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 54
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- June 14, 1899
- Died
- April 16, 1972
- Place of birth
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
