Born:Jun 14, 1899
Died:Apr 16, 1972
Age: 72 Deceased
From:Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Department:Writing
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
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.