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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Born:
June 11, 1899
Died:
April 16, 1972
(aged 72)
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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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