Yasunari Kawabata
Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: June 14, 1899
Day of Death: April 16, 1972 (73 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
