About Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
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Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Order of Culture
Noma Literary Prize
Kikuchi Kan Prize
Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
Mainichi Publication Culture Award
Person of Cultural Merit
Japan Art Academy Prize
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Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class
Officer of Arts and Letters
