October 17, 1968 (, Shigenobu August 26), the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata


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1968 October 17, 2010, the famous Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata after Following Tagore, became the second Asians won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Yasunari Kawabata, born in 1899, the people of Osaka. 1924 Tokyo Imperial University, State liberal arts graduate. Same year founded the literary era ", published novels and a large number of comments of the famous" Izu Dancer "is referred to as" New Sensation School "writer and theorist. Has since been published the Asakusa red group ", etc. the Asakusa series of works, and Crystal Fantasy", "transformation", "lyrical song", "beast" masterpiece. The 1933 novel "Snow Country" by literary earnest words would Award; 1948, "continued Snow Country. 1000 Yu Hok "," Mountain Music "and" ancient capital "and later published novels and essays" trounced ". Former Japan PEN president, a member of the Art Academy, International PEN, vice president and other staff.
twilight years of pessimism, April 16, 1972 suicide Yasunari Kawabata Complete Works "35.