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Yasunari Kawabata

born

December 13, 1901

died

April 16, 1972

gender

male

place of birth

Osaka, Japan

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Awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."

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avg rating: 3.96 | 1603 ratings | 36 distinct works

	Snow Country (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.90 — 493 ratings — published 1996 12 editions	my rating:
	Thousand Cranes (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.89 — 213 ratings — published 1996 7 editions	my rating:
	Beauty and Sadness (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.95 — 171 ratings — published 1996 11 editions	my rating:
	Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 4.33 — 129 ratings — published 2006 5 editions	my rating:
	The Master of Go (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.83 — 115 ratings — published 1996 8 editions	my rating:
	The Sound of the Mountain (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 4.07 — 100 ratings — published 1996 10 editions	my rating:
	House of the Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 4.04 — 98 ratings — published 2006 13 editions	my rating:
	The Old Capital (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.80 — 51 ratings — published 2006 3 editions	my rating:
	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 4.00 — 44 ratings — published 2002 2 editions	my rating:
	The Lake (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 2004 8 editions	my rating:

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