Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899. By the age of four he had lost both parents, and he was raised by his grandparents; his grandmother died when he was seven and his grandfather when he was fifteen. In 1917 he moved to Tokyo, where he entered the First Higher School and then studied literature at Tokyo University. While still a student he helped revive a university literary magazine and began publishing stories. With the writer Riichi Yokomitsu he led a modernist group called the Shinkankakuha, which experimented with new ways of writing influenced by European art movements. His early works include the novella The Dancing Girl of Izu. His most famous novel, Snow Country, about a love affair at a hot-spring resort in the snowy mountains, appeared in parts from 1935. After the Second World War he wrote Thousand Cranes, The Sound of the Mountain and The Old Capital. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1972.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; his Nobel lecture focused on Zen Buddhism. Source: Wikipedia