Ka·wa·ba·ta (kä w -bä t), Yasunari 1899-1972. Japanese writer whose novels, including Thousand Cranes (1959), often concern alienated, lonely individuals in search of beauty and purity. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature. |
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| Kawabata H, Dancel LA, Villanueva SY, Yanagihara Y, Koizumi N, Watanabe H. Seidensticker, the translator who helped Yasunari Kawabata win a Nobel Prize, for a Harper's article he published in 1955 Kawabata is able to suggest in a very subtly understated way a delicate eroticism. |
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