Yasunari Kawabata
Born
June 14, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972 (72 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
