Name: Yasunari Kawabata
Birthday: 14 June 1899
Deathday: 16 April 1972
Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Writing
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.
