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Yasunari Kawabata

Known for
Writing
Born
June 14, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972
Birthplace
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Filmography

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