Yasunari Kawabata

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-06-14 (73 years old)

Deathday

1972-04-16

Place of Birth

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Yasunari Kawabata

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.

Production

2005

Koto

as Novel

1926

A Page of Madness

as Original Story

1926

1936

2010

Kaidan Horror Classics

as Original Story

1985

1951

Repast

as Script Supervisor

2009

Kingyo

as Original Story

2009

Love Suicides

as Original Story

1974

2008

A Girl in the Sunset

as Original Story

1954

Dancing Girls of Izu

as Original Story

2002

Shinshun! Love stories

as Original Story

2008

Kataude

as Original Story

1930

Asakusa kurenaidan

as Original Story

1966

1956

Family of Sorrow

as Original Story

1951

Dancing Girl

as Original Story

2016

1965

Snow Country

as Original Story

2022

Snow Country

as Novel

1969

1960

The Izu Dancer

as Original Story

1953

Reminiscence

as Novel

1957

Snow Country

as Original Story

1958

Woman Unveiled

as Original Story

2001

2007

1959

Windy Street

as Novel

2019

One Arm

as Novel

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