Yasunari Kawabata

Kawabata Yasunari was born in June 1899 in Ōsaka. Orphaned of both father and mother in early childhood, he was raised by his grandparents. A graduate of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1924, he founded that same year, with other young authors, the journal Bungei Jidai, the focus of the so-called Neo-Sensationist current. He presided over the Japanese PEN Club from 1948 to 1965 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first awarded to a Japanese writer. He died on 16 April 1972 in Zushi, asphyxiated by gas.

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• NovelHouse of the Sleeping Beauties眠れる美女Yasunari Kawabata · 1961Literature