Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1968
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Yasunari Kawabata

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1968
for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind
Citizenship
Japan Japan
Languages
Japanese
date of birth
6/11/1899
place of birth
Osaka
date of death
4/16/1972
place of death
Zushi
Lived
72 years

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educated at
  • University of Tokyo
occupation
  • writer
  • screenwriter
  • poet
  • novelist
notable work
  • The Old Capital
  • Thousand Cranes
  • Snow Country
  • The Dancing Girl of Izu
  • The Sound of the Mountain
  • The House of the Sleeping Beauties
field of work
  • literature
work location
  • Japan
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