Yasunari Kawabata
Biography
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.
- Known For: Writing
- Birthday: 1899-06-14
- Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Also Known As: 川端康成
