Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese Writer(1899-1972)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Kawabata Yasunari
• Birth: June 11, 1899, Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Death: April 16, 1972, Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Language: Japanese
• Who he was: Japanese novelist and short story writer; novels The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa; Snow Country; The Master of Go; Thousand Cranes; The Old Capital; The Sound of the Mountain; Beauty and Sadness; short-stories "The Dancing Girl of Izu"; Palm-of-the-Hand Stories; Nobel Prize in Literature (1968)

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