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Yasunari 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.

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culture · Japanese novelist (1899–1972) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · poet · also Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata

Born 11 June 1899 · Died 16 April 1972 · Q43736

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Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class (1972).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.
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2026· 3 entries

Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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點新聞: A Thousand Hamlets | Seeking another Kawabata in Izu's summer chill

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Aug 8, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Clarin.com: Yasunari Kawabata, escritor japonés: "El tiempo pasa, pero los recuerdos permanecen"

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Jun 13, 2026Documented record69% confidence

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Moviefone: Yasunari Kawabata

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2023· 3 entries

Dec 2, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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The Straits Times: Book review: Yasunari Kawabata’s The Rainbow reflects the deep spiritual ache of post-war Japan

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Nov 10, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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Wall Street Journal: ‘The Rainbow’ Review: Yasunari Kawabata’s Quiet Revolution

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Oct 23, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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毎日新聞: Donald Keene's Japan (Pt. 43): Yasunari Kawabata wins Nobel Prize in literature

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2016· 1 entry

Mar 19, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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ジャパンタイムズ: Yasunari Kawabata meditates on nature and Westernization in ‘The Old Capital’

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1972· 5 entries

Jun 15, 1972Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class (1972).

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Apr 16, 1972Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1972-04-16.

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“Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.”

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1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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In an apparent suicide, although several close associates and friends, including his widow, consider his death to have been accidental

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1972Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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A year and a half after Mishima had committed suicide

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1969· 1 entry

1969Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Kawabata was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Hawaiʻi

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1968· 2 entries

Dec 10, 1968Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.

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Jun 15, 1968Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1968).

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Mainichi Publication Culture Award (1962).

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1961· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1961Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Culture (1961).

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Jun 15, 1961Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1961).

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1960· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1960Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1960).

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1959· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1959Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1959).

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1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Appointed an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 1960, and awarded Japan's Order of Culture the following year

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1958· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1958Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Kikuchi Kan Prize (1958).

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1954· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1954Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Noma Literary Prize (1954).

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1952· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1952Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Japan Art Academy Prize (1952).

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1951· 1 entry

1951Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Aged 44, but Kawabata was not informed of her death until 1955

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1944· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1944Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Kikuchi Kan Prize (1944).

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1938· 1 entry

1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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On which he had actually reported for the Mainichi newspaper chain

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1934· 3 entries

Jan 1, 1934Documented record76% confidence

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“I feel as though I have never held a woman”

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1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And first published in installments from 1935 through 1937

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1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And, although he initially enjoyed a very active social life among the many other writers and literary people residing in that city during the war years and immediately thereafter, in his later years he became very reclu

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Kawabata protested publicly against the arrest, torture and death of the young leftist writer Takiji Kobayashi in Tokyo by the Tokkō special political police

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1926· 1 entry

1926Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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A story about a melancholy student who, on a walking trip down Izu Peninsula, meets a young dancer, and returns to Tokyo in much improved spirits

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1925· 1 entry

1925Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And they registered their marriage on 2 December 1931

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1921· 1 entry

1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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But only one month later Hatsuyo broke off the engagement for unclear reasons

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1918· 1 entry

1918Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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After which he got on much better with his dormmates

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1899· 1 entry

Jun 11, 1899Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1899-06-11.

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