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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Average rating: 3.75 · 66,833 ratings · 6,215 reviews · 166 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 17,771 ratings — published 1948 — 138 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) 3.76 avg rating — 8,427 ratings — published 1952 — 89 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) 3.85 avg rating — 7,449 ratings — published 1964 — 85 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) 3.92 avg rating — 5,188 ratings — published 1954 — 74 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 — 5,868 ratings — published 1960 — 52 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 — 3,540 ratings — published 1954 — 46 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) 3.77 avg rating — 3,754 ratings — published 1962 — 67 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) 3.99 avg rating — 2,363 ratings — published 1984 — 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 Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 1926 — 46 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) 3.66 avg rating — 1,643 ratings — published 1955 — 38 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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Polls

March 2016 Short Story Poll

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages, 1937

50 votes, 25.0%

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 121 pages, 1922

29 votes, 14.5%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879

18 votes, 9.0%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 98 pages, 1941

16 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903

13 votes, 6.5%

The Bet by Anton Chekhov, 64 pages, 1889

13 votes, 6.5%

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages, 1936

12 votes, 6.0%

Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916

9 votes, 4.5%

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages, 1865

8 votes, 4.0%

The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, 109 pages, 1829

6 votes, 3.0%

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, 56 pages, 1956

6 votes, 3.0%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 64 pages, 1853

6 votes, 3.0%

The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 64 pages, 1836

5 votes, 2.5%

A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin, 64 pages, 1897

4 votes, 2.0%

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Approx. 90 pages-Title Story Only, 1960

3 votes, 1.5%

Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Aprrox. 16 pages-Title Story Only, 1973

2 votes, 1.0%

200 total votes

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