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Yasunari Kawabata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Snow Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka. After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school.
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Yasunari Kawabata Born 1899 Died 1972 ... All Literature Nobel Laureates ... Play Literature games!
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) ... In 1968, Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works combined the beauty of old Japan with modernist trends, and his prose blended realism with surrealistic visions.
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Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. ... Books by Yasunari Kawabata ... New Yasunari Kawabata translations (submitted by Jedediah Berry)
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Kawabata Yasunari (Japanese author), June 11, 1899Ōsaka, Japan April 16, 1972ZushiJapanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His melancholic lyricism echoes an ancient Japanese literary tradition in the modern idiom. ... Kawabata Yasunari, 1968.
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SOURCE: "Kawabata Yasunari," in The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima, The University Press of Hawaii, 1979, pp. 121-200. ... [In the excerpt below, Petersen details the imagery and allusive language of "House of the Sleeping Beauties. "]
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One of those books is Yasunari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. ... Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968 for his [longer works], "The Izu Dancer," Thousand Cranes, Snow Country, and the others, which were so important to Japan's modern literature. But Kawabata believed that the very short..
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Writing; Writing an Essay. The theme of aging and death is present in much Western literature as well. Read Shakepeare’s Sonnet 73 at the Web site of the University of Nevada. Which season is referenced by both the author and the poet? ... The Internet sites referenced here may include third-party Web sites or resources.
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