Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
June 14, 1899
Died at age 72
April 16, 1972
Date of Death
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
3 Credits
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.
