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Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

11 June 1899

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