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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.
Yasunari Kawabata. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968. Born: 11 June 1899, Osaka, Japan. Died: 16 April 1972, Zushi, Japan. Residence at the time of the award: Japan. Prize motivation: “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind” Language: Japanese. Prize share: 1/1. Life.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 was awarded to Yasunari Kawabata "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"
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.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 was awarded to Yasunari Kawabata "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"
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.
Nov 30, 2023 · The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata — one of Japan’s most poetic 20th-century writers, newly translated. This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised...
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.
Dec 3, 2023 · Yasunari Kawabata, who died at the age of 72 in 1972, was one of Japan’s most eminent writers. He was the first of only two authors from the country to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,...
