- Birthday
- 1899-06-14
- Deathday
- 1972-04-16
- Place of Birth
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Yasunari Kawabata
WritingBiography
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.
