Yasunari Kawabata

Writing

June 14, 1899 (Age 126) - April 16, 1972

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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.

Actor Details

Birthday

June 14, 1899 (Age 126)

Place of Birth

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Known For

Writing

Movies

3.5

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

Self

1985

Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

1968

Keiko and Yves Get Married

himself

1957