Yasunari Kawabata
Died: 16th April, 1972Born: 14th June, 1899Age: 127Birthplace: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, JapanBiography: 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.
