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Yasunari Kawabata
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Yasunari Kawabata

1899 – 1972 · aged 73

Japanese novelist (1899–1972)

Born
11 Jun 1899 · Osaka
Died
16 Apr 1972 · Zushi
Part ofJapan230 BCE – todayBuddhism500 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 84 years
  1. 11 Jun 1899BornBorn in Osaka
  2. 1944AwardKikuchi Kan Prize
  3. 1952AwardJapan Art Academy Prize
  4. 1954AwardNoma Literary Prize
  5. 1958AwardKikuchi Kan Prize
  6. 1959AwardGoethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
  7. 1960AwardOfficer of Arts and Letters
  8. 1961AwardOrder of Culture
  9. 1961AwardPerson of Cultural Merit
  10. 1962AwardMainichi Publication Culture Award
  11. 1968AwardNobel Prize in Literature
  12. 1972AwardOrder of the Rising Sun, 1st class
  13. 16 Apr 1972DiedDied in Zushi

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1899 – 1972).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  23. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  24. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  25. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  27. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  28. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  30. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  31. 1956Suez Crisis
  32. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  34. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  36. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  38. 1968Prague Spring
  39. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  40. 19721972 Summer Olympics

Biography

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi], 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) 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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