Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer
Died when: 72 years 307 days (874 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Yasunari Kawabata (?? ??, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
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