# Yasunari Kawabata

> The first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1968, for prose so spare and lyrical it reads like ink wash painting - subtlety as craft, restraint as power.

*Japanese novelist (1899-1972)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1899-06-11
- **Died:** 1972-04-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Yasunari Kawabata was born on 11 June 1899 and built a career as a novelist and short story writer whose style turned on what wasn't said: prose that shaded meaning rather than declared it. That approach, lyrical and precise, earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, making him the first Japanese author to receive it. His works found readers far beyond Japan and have held them since. He died on 16 April 1972.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 76.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 10.8 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 26.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 44.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442704/ (@nm0442704)

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Fiction, #Screenwriting, #Poetry, #Japan, #Asia

## Timeline
- **1972** - Died
- **1972** - Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class
- **1968** - Nobel Prize in Literature
- **1961** - Order of Culture
- **1961** - Person of Cultural Merit
- **1960** - Officer of Arts and Letters
- **1959** - Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
- **1952** - Japan Art Academy Prize
- **1944** - Kikuchi Kan Prize
- **1899** - Born

## Sources
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- [川端康成](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%AF%E5%BA%B7%E6%88%90)
- [Yasunari Kawabata](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata)
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- [Jasunari Kawabata](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasunari_Kawabata)
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