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Yasunari Kawabata

Born on June 11, 1899

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The 128th anniversary falls on June 11, 2027, in 230 days.

Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation:, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) 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.

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