Yasunari Kawabata is Japan's only Nobel laureate in literature. The prize, once monopolized by Western writers, was given to a Japanese for the first time in 1968. Japan had arrived as a modern ...

Kawabata Yasunari emerged as a pivotal figure in Japanese literature, earning the distinction of being the first from his nation to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, steeped in ...

Yasunari Kawabata 1899–1972 Japanese short story writer, novelist, and critic. The following entry presents an overview of Kawabata's career.

May 22, 1972 · Kawabata Yasunari 1899–1972 A Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist and critic, Kawabata is best known for his novel Snow Country . (See also Contemporary Authors , obituary, Vols. 33-36.)

The same elements form Kawabata’s somewhat sensational novella The House of the Sleeping Beauties, combining lust, voyeurism, and necrophilia with virgin worship and Buddhist metaphysics. The ...

This is the theme of the three stories contained in 1968 Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties, in which the author explores the fear that compels a man to try to ...

SOURCE: An introduction to House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, Kodansha International, 1969, pp. 7-10. [Mishima is ...

Kawabata, Yasunari 1899-1972 Japanese novelist, short story and novella writer, critic, and essayist. Kawabata was an internationally acclaimed fiction writer who was the first Japanese to win the ...

Yasunari Kawabata has long been recognized as one of Japan’s major novelists, short-story writers, and critics. In 1968 he became the first Japanese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

When Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize, many Japanese readers reacted with the same confusion expressed by American readers when William Faulkner was awarded the same prize in 1949.