Personal Info
Born: 1899-06-14
Died: 1972-04-16
Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Writing
Yasunari Kawabata
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.
