Yasunari Kawabata

Writing

Born: 1899-06-14
Died: 1972-04-16
From: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.4

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 & Nominations11 won · 5 nominated

🏆 Won

Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class

1972
🏆 Won

Nobel Prize in Literature

1968
Nominated

Nobel Prize in Literature

1965
Nominated

Nobel Prize in Literature

1964
Nominated

Nobel Prize in Literature

1963
🏆 Won

Mainichi Publication Culture Award

1962
Nominated

Nobel Prize in Literature

1962
🏆 Won

Order of Culture

1961
🏆 Won

Person of Cultural Merit

1961
Nominated

Nobel Prize in Literature

1961
🏆 Won

Officer of Arts and Letters

1960
🏆 Won

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt

1959
🏆 Won

Kikuchi Kan Prize

1958
🏆 Won

Noma Literary Prize

1954
🏆 Won

Japan Art Academy Prize

1952
🏆 Won

Kikuchi Kan Prize

1944

Acting3 titles

Directing1 title

Writing45 titles