Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan on 11 June
1899. He
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. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. He died in Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan, on 16 April 1972, at the age of 72.
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)
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The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961)
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The Sound of the Mountain (1949)
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Snow Country (1937)
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Thousand Cranes (1952)
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