Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
- Born
- June 14, 1899 in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- April 16, 1972
- Age
- Died at age 72
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.
