Quote of the day
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
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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