Awards & Winners

Yasunari Kawabata

Date of Birth 14-June-1899
Place of Birth Osaka
(Japan, Osaka Prefecture)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Kawabata Yasunari, 川端 康成
Profession Writer, Novelist
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

Awards by Yasunari Kawabata

Check all the awards nominated and won by Yasunari Kawabata.

1968


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind)