Writer

Yasunari Kawabata

1899 – 1972

Active years (films on this site)

1926–1954

Genres

DramaHorrorThriller

Schools and movements

Japanese Golden AgeEarly and Pioneering CinemaSurrealism and the Avant-Garde

Directors worked with

Teinosuke Kinugasa1 filmMikio Naruse1 film

Biography

Yasunari Kawabata 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.

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Awards and honours

International

• Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt 1959
• Officer of Arts and Letters 1960
• Order of Culture 1961
• Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
• Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class 1972

National / local

• Kikuchi Kan Prize 1944
• Japan Art Academy Prize 1952
• Noma Literary Prize 1954
• Kikuchi Kan Prize 1958
• Person of Cultural Merit 1961
• Mainichi Publication Culture Award 1962

2 films on this site

1. A Page of Madness 1926 · Teinosuke Kinugasa · IMDb 7.3 · Writer
2. Sound of the Mountain 1954 · Mikio Naruse · IMDb 7.7 · Writer