Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 14, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
