Yasunari Kawabata

Born

in Osaka, Japan

June 14, 1899

Died

April 16, 1972

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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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: 3.76 · 58,954 ratings · 5,352 reviews · 151 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 15,624 ratings — published 1947 — 129 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 — 7,536 ratings — published 1952 — 82 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 — 6,582 ratings — published 1964 — 82 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 — 4,610 ratings — published 1954 — 70 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) 3.68 avg rating — 5,268 ratings — published 1960 — 48 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) 3.85 avg rating — 3,261 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 — 3,287 ratings — published 1962 — 40 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,190 ratings — published 1984 — 40 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 — 1,994 ratings — published 1927 — 43 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 — 1,470 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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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

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