Kawabata Yasunari
Kawabata Yasunari (1899 – 1972) — Japan, writing in Japanese. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.
“for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Kawabata Yasunari
Japanese novelist and the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A master of fragile, melancholy beauty (mono no aware) and of the silences and the unsaid that give his prose its haunting restraint.