Yasunari Kawabata
Date of Birth:
Jun 14, 1899
Place of Birth:
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Date of Birth:
Jun 14, 1899
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.