Yasunari Kawabata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese author

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1899

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 16-Apr-1972

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Yasunari Kawabata (?? ??, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) 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.
His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.