Yasunari Kawabata
Known for Writing
Born June 13, 1899
Died April 16, 1972 (aged 72)
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.
