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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 June 1899
- Died
- 16 April 1972
- Place of birth
- Osaka
- Place of death
- Zushi
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Yasunari
- Family name
- Kawabata
- Spouse
- Hideko Kawabata
- Field of work
- literature
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, screenwriter, poet
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Native language
- Japanese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Awards
- Kikuchi Kan Prize, Japan Art Academy Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Officer of Arts and Letters, Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit, Mainichi Publication Culture Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class, Kikuchi Kan Prize
- dedicated heritage entity
- Ibaraki Municipal Kawabata Literature Hall
- described by source
- Larousse Encyclopedia online, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius, Kotobank, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- educated at
- University of Tokyo
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Japanese
- manner of death
- suicide
- medical condition
- Parkinson's disease, depression
- name in native language
- 川端 康成
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Dancing Girl of Izu, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, The Old Capital, The House of the Sleeping Beauties, The Sound of the Mountain
- relative
- Kaori Kawabata
- start of work period
- 1924
- topic's main category
- Category:Yasunari Kawabata
- work location
- Japan
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