Writing, 1899
Yasunari Kawabata
Born Jun 14, 1899, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, Died Apr 16, 1972 (72)
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.
