Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
14/06/1899
Day of Death
16/04/1972
(73) years old
Place of Birth
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.