Yasunari KAWABATA, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Japan\'s most distinguished novelists.
Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972..
Among his major novels published in the United States are Snow Country (1956), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975).
His story The Izu Dancer, first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955.
He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924.
Born in Osaka in 1899, he published his first stories while he was still in high school.
Yasunari KAWABATA, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Japan\'s most distinguished novelists