Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
Born: 6/14/1899•Died: 4/16/1972
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.
