Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata at his home in Kamakura
Born	(1899-06-11)11 June 1899 Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Died	16 April 1972(1972-04-16) (aged 72) Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Period	1924–1972
Genre	Novels, short stories
Literary movement	Shinkankakuha
Notable works	Snow Country, The Master of Go, The Dancing Girl of Izu, The Old Capital
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
Spouse	Hideko Kawabata
Japanese name
Kanji	川端 康成
Hiragana	かわばた やすなり
Katakana	カワバタ ヤスナリ
Transcriptions Romanization Kawabata Yasunari

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972^[1]) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.