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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.