Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Birthday: 1899-06-14

Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Biography: 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.

Movies

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

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

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Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata
Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

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

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Keiko and Yves Get Married
Keiko and Yves Get Married

The wedding of actress Keiko Kishi and filmmaker Yves Ciampi....

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