The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

1899–1972

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation:, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972), referred to in rare circumstances as Kōsei Kawabata, was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

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