Yasunari Kawabata
Writing · Novel · Original Story · Writer
Born Jun 14, 1899 · Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Active 1926–1972 · 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
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.
Filmography
A Page of Madness (1926) — Original Story · WriterSound of the Mountain (1954) — NovelRepast (1951) — Script SupervisorMr. Thank You (1936) — NovelWoman of the Lake (1966) — NovelThe Izu Dancer (1974) — NovelThe Izu Dancer (1967) — Original StoryThousand Cranes (1969) — NovelDancing Girls of Izu (1954) — Original StoryThe Old Capital (2016) — Novel · Original StoryHouse of Sleeping Beauties (1995) — NovelLove Comes with Youth (1963) — WriterKingyo (2009) — Original StorySnow Country (1957) — NovelTwin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) — NovelWoman Unveiled (1958) — Original StoryThe Master of Funerals (2019) — NovelDancing Girl (1951) — Original StoryThree Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935) — Original StoryThe House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968) — NovelMother's First Love (1954) — NovelThe Land of Snow (1977) — NovelThrough Days and Months (1969) — NovelKaidan Horror Classics (2010) — Original Story