Yasunari Kawabata
Birth date
June 14, 1899
Death date
April 16, 1972
Place of birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Profession
Writing
Age
72 years
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.
