Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) · CatalogYasunari KawabataYasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) · CatalogJapanese novelist, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Author
Yasunari Kawabata
1899-1972 · Japanese novelist, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Short biography: Yasunari Kawabata in Great Lives
About Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) was born in Osaka and lost his parents, sister and grandparents during childhood. After studying at Tokyo Imperial University, he helped found the New Sensationalist (Shinkankakuha) movement with Riichi Yokomitsu and won notice with the story The Izu Dancer (1926). His major works include Snow Country (1935–1948), Thousand Cranes (1949–1952), The Sound of the Mountain (1949–1954), The Master of Go (1951–1954) and many very short 'palm-of-the-hand' stories. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at Zushi in 1972.
Notable works
- The Izu Dancer (1926)
- Snow Country (1935-1948)
- Thousand Cranes (1949-1952)
- The Sound of the Mountain (1949-1954)
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Snow CountryYasunari Kawabata
1935–1937; completed 1948 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
Snow Country is a novel by Yasunari Kawabata, first published in installments in Japanese magazines from 1935, collected in book form in 1937 and completed in a final version in 1948. Edward G. Seidensticker's English translation appeared in 1956, and the novel was among the works discussed in the presentation speech when Kawabata received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.