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Yasunari Kawabata [川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari ], ( 14 June 1899 - 16 April 1972 ) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist known for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the...


Biography

Name: Yasunari Kawabata
Birth Date: June 11, 1899
Death Date: April 16, 1972
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Place of Death: Zushi, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Yasunari Kawabata
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured family, his father being...
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Biography of Yasunari Kawabata
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Kawabata Yasunari was the first (and, until 1994, the only) Japanese author to achieve international status through receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, which came to him in 1968. His writings attracted a worldwide audience who saw in them...


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Yasunari Kawabata Summary
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(1899–1972), Japanese novelist. Born the son of a doctor in Osaka, Japan, Kawabata Yasunari lost both parents, his grandmother with whom he lived, and a sister before he was nine, and then nursed his terminally ill grandfather. Determined early...
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Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari?, 14 June 1899 - 16 April 1972) 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...


News and Journals
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International Fiction Review
Writing as tea ceremony: Kawabata's geido aesthetics.(Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata)(Critical Essay)
01/01/2002: 4,497 words, approx. 15 pages
In his article "Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture" (1994), Andrew Feenberg suggests that Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Master of Go (1954) embodies the Zen Buddhist principle that playing Go in traditional Japan constituted a quest for self-realization and a path to...
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Kawabata y las manos del corazón.(Primera nieve en el monte Fuji, colección de obras del autor Yasunari Kawabata)
12/19/2004: 809 words, approx. 3 pages
Agradezcamos a García Márquez que a través del epígrafe de su nueva noveleta nos haya recordado una obra impar: la del japonés Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). Leamos, pues, a los grandes. Editorial Norma acaba de poner en circulación una antología preparada a raíz del otorgamiento...
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Kyodo World Service
LEAD: Seidensticker, translator of Japanese literary works, dies at 86
8/27/2007: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
Edward G. Seidensticker, known for his English translation of the classic ''Tale of Genji'' and translations of works by modern Japanese authors such as Yasunari Kawabata, died at a Tokyo hospital Sunday, a long-time friend said Monday. He was 86. He had...
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Kyodo World Service
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8/27/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pages
---------- Abe reshuffles Cabinet, party leadership with veteran lawmakers TOKYO - By Janice Tang Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed veteran lawmakers as key ministers in a reshuffle of his 11-month Cabinet on Monday and also revamped his party leadership, in hopes...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Thom Palmer
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In the following essay, Palmer examines Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories in an attempt to demonstrate that the form the author employed in these pieces was much more congenial to his talents than the novel form.
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Critical Essay by Thom Palmer
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In the following essay, Palmer emphasizes the importance of Kawabata's “palm-of-the-hand” short stories to his fictional oeuvre.
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Critical Essay by Arthur G. Kimball
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In the essay below, Kimball closely scrutinizes the imagery in "House of the Sleeping Beauties, " detecting numerous pairs of opposing or contradictory images in the story.
 


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