Yasunari Kawabata
1899
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1972
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: novel
country of citizenship: Japan
native language: Japanese
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
educated at: University of Tokyo
occupation: writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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