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Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) 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.
Jun 7, 2024 · Kawabata Yasunari (born June 11, 1899, Ōsaka, Japan—died April 16, 1972, Zushi) was a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His melancholic lyricism echoes an ancient Japanese literary tradition in the modern idiom. The sense of loneliness and preoccupation with death that permeates much of Kawabata’s mature writing possibly derives from the loneliness of his childhood (he was orphaned early and lost all near relatives while still in his youth).
Yasunari Kawabata was born in 1899 in Osaka, Japan. After the early death of his parents, he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended a Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree. He was one of the founders of the publication Bungei Jidai, the medium of a new movement in modern Japanese literature. He became a member of the Art Academy of Japan in 1953 and four years later he was ...
Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka. After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree.
Yasunari Kawabata ( 川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist 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 today.
Kawabata Yasunari. Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari) (June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose made him the first Japanese to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His works, which have enjoyed broad and lasting appeal, are still widely read internationally.
Yasunari Kawabata Nobel Lecture . English. Japanese: Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968 (Translation) Japan, the Beautiful and Myself “In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo. In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold.” “The winter moon comes from the clouds to keep me company. The wind is piercing, the snow is cold.” ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured family, his father being a doctor of medicine.
Yasunari Kawabata winning the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-three years after the end of World War Two was a sign that the world was taking note of Japanese literature, and caused a great stir within Japan. The Nobel Committee for Literature, remarking on the selection process, praised Kawabata’s work for its narrative mastery, which expresses the essence of the Japanese mind with great sensibility.
Nov 30, 2023 · Published in Kawabata’s native language more than 70 years ago and now available in English for the first time, this postwar novel is the latest in a slow-burning series of new translations that ...
