YASUNARI KAWABATA.
A biography of Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel Prize winner for Literature, is presented. He was born on June 11, 1899 in Osaka, Japan and studied at the Imperial University of Tokyo. His literary perspective was greatly affected by childhood bereavement wherein his literature depicts those of loneliness...
| Published in: | Giants in Their Field: An Introduction to the Nobel Prizes in Literature pp. 404 - 407 |
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| Format: | Biography |
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Digitalia Publishing Corp.
1993
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| Summary: | A biography of Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel Prize winner for Literature, is presented. He was born on June 11, 1899 in Osaka, Japan and studied at the Imperial University of Tokyo. His literary perspective was greatly affected by childhood bereavement wherein his literature depicts those of loneliness and the impermanence of life. His works were then recognized by Kan Kikuchi who became his mentor. |
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