Back to peopleYasunari KawabataKnown forWritingBornJune 14, 1899DiedApril 16, 1972Place of birthOsaka City, Osaka Prefecture, JapanBiographyLife and careerYasunari 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.Filmography1 filmsAll1Crew1Sound of the Mountain1954Novel
