Yasunari Kawabata

Born: 1899-06-14

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.


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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

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Released: 1985-12-03

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major...

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Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

as uncredited
Released: 1968-12-11

The day after Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a talk was held at Kawabata's...

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