Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata

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.

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Place of Birth

Writing14 June 1899 (age 125)Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Filmography

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