Yasunari Kawabata

Born

in Osaka, Japan

June 14, 1899

Died

April 16, 1972

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Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

Nobel Lecture: 1968
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...

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Average rating: 3.76 · 55,374 ratings · 4,966 reviews · 143 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 14,614 ratings — published 1947 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 7,096 ratings — published 1952 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 6,181 ratings — published 1964 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 4,352 ratings — published 1954 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) , Yukio Mishima (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 4,998 ratings — published 1960 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 3,127 ratings — published 1954 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 3,093 ratings — published 1962 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop (Translator) , J. Martin Holman (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 2,118 ratings — published 1984 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 1,913 ratings — published 1927 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata, Reiko Tsukimura (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 1,390 ratings — published 1955 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

tags: beauty-and-sadness

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I Am a Cat: I by Natsume Sōseki

40 votes, 19.2%

Silence by Shūsaku Endō

35 votes, 16.8%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

33 votes, 15.9%

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

27 votes, 13.0%

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Theodore W. Goossen

26 votes, 12.5%

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki

25 votes, 12.0%

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

22 votes, 10.6%

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