Yasunari Kawabata

Known for Writing

Yasunari Kawabata's portrait

Details

Birthday: June 14, 1899

Deathday: April 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.