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.

List of selected works

• The Dancing Girl of Izu (?????? Izu no Odoriko 1926, English translation 1955)
• Snow Country (?? Yukiguni, 1935-1937, 1947)
• The Master of Go (?? Meijin, 1951-4, English translation 1972)
• Thousand Cranes (??? Senbazuru, 1949-52)
• The Sound of the Mountain (??? Yama no Oto, 1949-54)
• The Old Capital (?? Koto, 1962)
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories ??????
• Beauty and Sadness (???????? Utsukushisa to Kanashimi to, 1964)