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Known For Writing

Known Credits 45

Gender Male

Birthday June 14, 1899

Day of Death April 16, 1972 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

  • 川端康成

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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.

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.

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Acting

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Directing

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