- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Jun 14, 1899
- Died
- Apr 16, 1972 (aged 72)
- Place of birth
- Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Yasunari Kawabata
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.
