Yasunari Kawabata

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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.

  • Writing
  • Born 14 June 1899
  • Died 16 April 1972 (age 72)
  • Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  • 52 credits

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Most-watched Yasunari Kawabata films currently: Koto: The Ancient City (1980), Mr. Thank You (1936), Repast (1951), Snow Country (1957), Thousand Cranes (1969).

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Selected TV credits: Tamayura (1965), Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (1986), Kaidan Horror Classics (2010).

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