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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 today.
Nobel Lecture: 1968
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
Yasunari Kawabata

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

“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

Polls

July 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  46 votes, 13.2%

 
  35 votes, 10.1%

 
  33 votes, 9.5%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 1967, 192 pgs
 
  28 votes, 8.0%

 
  27 votes, 7.8%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 1945, 185 pgs
 
  26 votes, 7.5%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pgs, 1969
 
  26 votes, 7.5%

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 1930, 267 pgs
 
  23 votes, 6.6%

 
  22 votes, 6.3%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 636 pgs
 
  18 votes, 5.2%

 
  14 votes, 4.0%

 
  13 votes, 3.7%

 
  11 votes, 3.2%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904, 425 pgs
 
  10 votes, 2.9%

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 1920, 454 pgs
 
  9 votes, 2.6%

 
  4 votes, 1.1%

Creation by Gore Vidal, 1981, 574 pgs
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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