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Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)

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Born
June 11, 1899
Died
April 16, 1972
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1899

About Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. There he published his first short story, "Shokonsai ikkei" ("A View from Yasukuni Festival") in 1921. One of his most famous novels was Snow Country, started in 1934 and first published in installments from 1935 through 1937.

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Yasunari Kawabata timeline

  1. There he published his first short story, "Shokonsai ikkei" ("A View from Yasukuni Festival") in 1921.
  2. One of his most famous novels was Snow Country, started in 1934 and first published in installments from 1935 through 1937.

The world when Yasunari Kawabata was born

Yasunari Kawabata was born in 1899. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlinePhilippine-American War begins
  • Technology milestoneFirst magnetic recording of sound
  • World population~1.59B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam McKinley
  • U.S. population72.0M

1899 versus 2026

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Measure18992026
Population72.0M341 million

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