Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899.
Kawabata died in 1972..
Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe Medal in Frankfurt.
He served as the chairman of the P.
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Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975).
His short story The Izu Dancer, first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955.
One of Japan\'s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924.
In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899
