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Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
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Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Literature
Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)