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Yasunari Kawabata

1899 - 1972

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Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari/Kōsei; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi, -koꜜː.sei, -seː], 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. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasunari Kawabata is the 154th most popular writer (up from 169th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Japan (up from 18th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Writer.

Yasunari Kawabata is most famous for his novel, The Sound of the Mountain.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yasunari Kawabata ranks 154 out of 7,302. Before him are Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, and Plautus. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, and Henryk Sienkiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Yasunari Kawabata ranks 9. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges, Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick IX of Denmark, Al Capone, Lavrentiy Beria, and Vladimir Nabokov. After him are Friedrich Hayek, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Humphrey Bogart, Macfarlane Burnet, Francis Poulenc, and Paul-Henri Spaak. Among people deceased in 1972, Yasunari Kawabata ranks 7. Before him are Edward VIII, Harry S. Truman, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ip Man, Frederick IX of Denmark, and Ezra Pound. After him are M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Igor Sikorsky.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasunari Kawabata ranks 15 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Haruki Murakami (1949), and Yukio Mishima (1925). After him are Hideki Tojo (1884), Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Shinzō Abe (1954), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), and Hiroo Onoda (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yasunari Kawabata ranks 5. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Haruki Murakami (1949), and Yukio Mishima (1925). After him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Sei Shōnagon (966).

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