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{{Japanese name|Kawabata}}
{{nobelprize|Literature}}
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'''Yasunari Kawabata'''<ref>{{nihongo|'''Yasunari Kawabata'''|川端 康成|Kawabata Yasunari}}</ref> (14 June 1899–16 April 1972) was a [[Japan]]ese writer.  He was the winner of the 1968 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref>NobelPrize.org, [http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/ "Yasunari Kawabata"]; retrieved 2012-9-17.</ref>  He was the first Japanese author to receive the award.

==Related pages ==
* [[List of Nobel Prize winners by country]]

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[[Category:1899 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:Writers from Osaka]]
[[Category:Japanese Nobel Prize winners]]
[[Category:University of Tokyo alumni]]

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