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. |
Kawabata [ˌkæwəˈbɑːtə]
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(Biographies / Kawabata, Yasunari (1899-1972) M, Japanese, WRITING: novelist) Yasunari (ˌjæsʊˈnɑːrɪ). 1899-1972, Japanese novelist, author of Yukiguni (Snow Country, 1948) and Yama no oto (The Sound of the Mountain, 1954): Nobel prize for literature 1968
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