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Yasunari kawabata, kawabata yasunari, 11 june 1899 16 april 1972 was a japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtlyshaded prose works won him the nobel prize for literature in 1968, the first japanese author to receive the award. You get the feeling that the reverse would be just as feasible. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Kawabata is the nobel literature winning author of snow country among other novels and short stories.
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