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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Snow_CountrySnow Country - Wikipedia

    Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  6. 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"

  7. The Old Capital (古都, Koto) is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1962. It was one of three novels cited by the Nobel Committee in their decision to award Kawabata the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Old Capital was first translated into English in 1987 by J. Martin Holman.

  8. 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"

  9. 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...

  10. Apr 17, 1972 · TOKYO, Monday, April 17—Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was found dead last night with a gas hose in his mouth: He was 72 years old and...

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