Yasunari Kawabata
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
- Born
- 1899-06-14 · Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 1972-04-16
Known for
- A Page of Madness (1926) — Writer
- Sound of the Mountain (1954) — Novel
- Repast (1951) — Script Supervisor
- Mr. Thank You (1936) — Novel
- Woman of the Lake (1966) — Novel
- House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006) — Novel
- With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) — Novel
- Kingyo (2009) — Original Story
- Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) — Novel
- Dancing Girl (1951) — Original Story
- Snow Country (1957) — Novel
- The Izu Dancer (1974) — Novel
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935) — Original Story
- Sadness and Beauty (1985) — Novel
- Bellas durmientes (2001) — Novel
- The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985) — Self