Yasunari Kawabata
Known for: Writing
Born: 1899-06-14 – 1972-04-16 (aged 72)
From: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
