Writing
Yasunari Kawabata
Born June 14, 1899 Died April 16, 1972 (Age 72)Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan56 Credits
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.
