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Yasunari Kawabata


Japan (1899 - 1972)

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
 
 
New Books
November 2023

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The Rainbow
 
Novels
   Snow Country (1956)
   A Thousand Cranes (1959)
   Beauty and Sadness (1964)
   The Existence and Discovery of Beauty (1969)
   The Sound of the Mountain (1969)
   The Master of Go (1972)
   The Lake (1974)
   The Old Capital (1987)
   First Snow on Fuji (1999)
   The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (2005)
   Dandelions (2017)
   The Rainbow (2023)
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature Lifetime Achievement winner (1968)




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