Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Yasunari Kawabata
Born: June 11, 1899
Died: April 16, 1972 (aged 72)
Bio: Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
Known for:
- Thousand Cranes (1956)
- The Sound of the Mountain (1949)
- The Old Capital (1962)
- The House of the Sleeping Beauties
- Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
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