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Category Description: Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese short story writer, novelist, and journalist, and the first Japanese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). He was born in 1899 and died in 1972.

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Books and Writers: Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) - Biography covering his writing career and major novels, selected works and further reading.
Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 - Displays a photograph of Yasunari Kawabata, a biography, bibliography, and the author's Nobel lecture in text format. Includes a sound recording of the author and a video clip of the event.