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Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Writer · 1899–1972 · Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Wrote 47

2020s

  1. 2022

    Snow Country

    Novel

2010s

  1. 2019
  2. 2016
  3. 2010

    Kaidan Horror Classics

    Original Story

  4. Kaidan Horror Classics

    Original Story

2000s

  1. 2009

    Kingyo

    Original Story

  2. Love Suicides

    Original Story

  3. 2008

    Kataude

    Original Story

  4. A Girl in the Sunset

    Original Story

  5. 2007

    Nemureru bijo

    Novel

  6. 2006
  7. 2005

    Koto

    Novel

  8. 2002

    Shinshun! Love stories

    Original Story

  9. 2001

    Bellas durmientes

    Novel

1990s

  1. 1995

    House of Sleeping Beauties

    Novel

1980s

  1. 1986
  2. 1985

    Sadness and Beauty

    Novel

  3. 1980

    Koto: The Ancient City

    Novel

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Land of Snow

    Novel

  2. 1974

1960s

  1. 1969

    Thousand Cranes

    Novel

  2. 1968

    The House of the Sleeping Virgins

    Novel

  3. 1967

    The Izu Dancer

    Original Story

  4. 1966

    Woman of the Lake

    Novel

  5. 1965

    Snow Country

    Novel

  6. With Beauty and Sorrow

    Novel

  7. 1963
  8. Twin Sisters of Kyoto

    Novel

  9. 1960

    The Izu Dancer

    Original Story

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. 1958

    Woman Unveiled

    Original Story

  3. 1957

    Snow Country

    Novel

  4. 1956

    A Rainbow at Every Turn

    Novel

  5. 1955
  6. 1954

    Mother's First Love

    Novel

  7. Sound of the Mountain

    Novel

  8. 1953

    Asakusa monogatari

    Original Story

  9. Reminiscence

    Novel

  10. 1952

    The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

    Novel

  11. 1951

    Dancing Girl

    Original Story

1930s

  1. 1936

    Mr. Thank You

    Novel

  2. 1935

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    Original Story

  3. 1933

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    Author

Acted in 1

1960s

  1. 1968

    Around Mr. Yasunari Kawabata

    Movie

Directed 1

1950s

  1. 1951

    Repast

    Script Supervisor

Appearances2

1980s

  1. 1985

    The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

    Self

1950s

  1. 1957

    Keiko and Yves Get Married

    himself