Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (?? ?? Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He became the first Japanese, and third Asian (after Rabindranath Tagore and Shmuel Yosef Agnon), to win the award. His works have had broad and lasting appeal, and are still widely read internationally.

External links

• http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1968/ Nobel Prize site
• Yasunari Kawabata {{es icon}}
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kawabata.htm Fan site

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