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Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

1899-06-14

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Best known for:

A Page of Madness

Sound of the Mountain

Repast

Mr. Thank You

Woman of the Lake

House of the Sleeping Beauties

With Beauty and Sorrow

Kingyo

Dancing Girl

Snow Country

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

The Izu Dancer

Thousand Cranes

Sadness and Beauty

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

Bellas durmientes

The Dancing Girl of Izu

Koto

Kaidan Horror Classics

The Old Capital

Snow Country

Woman Unveiled

Windy Street

Snow Country

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Filmography:

A Page of Madness (1926)
6.1
WORK AS:
Writer, Original Story
The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933)
WORK AS:
Author
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Mr. Thank You (1936)
WORK AS:
Novel
Repast (1951)
6.3
WORK AS:
Script Supervisor
Dancing Girl (1951)
WORK AS:
Original Story
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1952)
WORK AS:
Novel
Reminiscence (1953)
WORK AS:
Novel

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Sound of the Mountain (1954)
6.2
WORK AS:
Novel
Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Mother's First Love (1954)
WORK AS:
Novel
A Rainbow at Every Turn (1956)
WORK AS:
Novel
Snow Country (1957)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Woman Unveiled (1958)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Windy Street (1959)
WORK AS:
Novel
The Izu Dancer (1960)
WORK AS:
Original Story

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Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
WORK AS:
Novel
Tamayura (1965)
WORK AS:
Original Story
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
WORK AS:
Novel
Snow Country (1965)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Woman of the Lake (1966)
WORK AS:
Novel
The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
WORK AS:
Novel
Thousand Cranes (1969)
WORK AS:
Novel
The Izu Dancer (1974)
WORK AS:
Novel
Koto: The Ancient City (1980)
WORK AS:
Novel
Sadness and Beauty (1985)
WORK AS:
Novel
Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (1986)
WORK AS:
Original Story
House of Sleeping Beauties (1995)
WORK AS:
Novel
Bellas durmientes (2001)
WORK AS:
Novel
Shinshun! Love stories (2002)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Koto (2005)
WORK AS:
Novel
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
WORK AS:
Novel
Nemureru bijo (2007)
WORK AS:
Novel
A Girl in the Sunset (2008)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Kataude (2008)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Kingyo (2009)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Love Suicides (2009)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
WORK AS:
Original Story
Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
WORK AS:
Original Story
The Old Capital (2016)
WORK AS:
Novel, Original Story
The Master of Funerals (2019)
WORK AS:
Novel
One Arm (2019)
WORK AS:
Novel
Snow Country (2022)
WORK AS:
Novel