Yasunari Kawabata

1899 - 1972

Country of citizenship: Japan

Native language: Japanese

Languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese

Occupation: writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet

Award received: Kikuchi Kan Prize, Japan Art Academy Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Officer of Arts and Letters, Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit, Mainichi Publication Culture Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class

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Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata (川端康成, Kawabata Yasunari/Kōsei; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi, -koꜜː.sei, -seː], 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Source: Wikipedia (en)