Yasunari Kawabata

川端 康成

aka Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata

Country

Japan

Languages

Japanese

Dates

1899 — 1972

east asiamodern japannobel prize

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Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.