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Biography
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
Awards & recognition
- Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class · 1972
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1968
- Mainichi Publication Culture Award · 1962
- Order of Culture · 1961
- Person of Cultural Merit · 1961
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- Officer of Arts and Letters · 1960
- Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt · 1959
- Kikuchi Kan Prize · 1958
- Noma Literary Prize · 1954
- Japan Art Academy Prize · 1952
- Kikuchi Kan Prize · 1944
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1965 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1964 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1963 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1962 · nominated
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1961 · nominated
