Yasunari Kawabata

Born in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Born:

June 14, 1899

Died:

April 16, 1972 (age 72)

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 th… more