Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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…