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Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He became the first Japanese to win the award. His works, which have enjoyed broad and lasting appeal, are still widely read internationally.
Biographical details
Kawabata was born in Osaka, and was orphaned when he was two, after which he then lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt. Kawabata's grandmother died when he was seven (September 1906), his sister, whom he met only once after the death of their parents, when he was ten(July 1909), and his grandfather when he was fifteen (May, 1914). Having lost all close reletives, he moved in with his mother's family (The Kurodas). However, in January of 1916, he moved into a boarding house near the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) that he had formally commuted to by train. After graduating from junior high school in March of 1917, just before his 18th birthday, he moved to Tokyo, hoping to pass the exams of Dai-ichi Koto-gakko'(Number One High School), which was under the direction of Tokyo Imperial University. He succeded in the exam the same year and entered the humanities faculty as an English major. In July of 1920 Kawabata gradutated from the high school and began at Tokyo Imperial University the same month.
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3) "A Dançarina de Izu", de Yasunari Kawabata. Status: já lido previamente. Mas, se der tempo, gostaria de reler.
fuzzyluisa (fuzzyluisa) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:50:35 -0000
3) "A Dançarina de Izu", de Yasunari Kawabata. Status: já lido previamente. Mas, se der tempo, gostaria de reler.
@martlycia Has leido Haruki MURAKAMI, Yasunari KAWABATA, Junichiro TANIZAKI? El útimo autor a mi me gustaba más, también escribió muy lindo.
kozueh (kozue hashimoto) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:09:46 -0000
@martlycia Has leido Haruki MURAKAMI, Yasunari KAWABATA, Junichiro TANIZAKI? El útimo autor a mi me gustaba más, también escribió muy lindo.
i don't know why, this novel is interesting for me so that i bought it. "snow country", author: yasunari kawabata
dheedeye (Dini Mega Kurniadini) Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:39:47 -0000
i don't know why, this novel is interesting for me so that i bought it. "snow country", author: yasunari kawabata
@elur M'alegro de que hagis donat una nova oportunitat a Yasunari Kawabata :)
_buk (_buk) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:12:48 -0000
@elur M'alegro de que hagis donat una nova oportunitat a Yasunari Kawabata :)
'PaÃs de Neu' m'està agradant molt més que 'La casa de les belles adormides' (Yasunari Kawabata)
elur (elur) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:09:11 -0000
'País de Neu' m'està agradant molt més que 'La casa de les belles adormides' (Yasunari Kawabata)
avoid using same word in sentences of english. being prefered in Jap. ex æã omou. refrain of "think" by yasunari kawabata, simply repeated.
4320cuts (urakata) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:05:04 -0000
avoid using same word in sentences of english. being prefered in Jap. ex 思う omou. refrain of "think" by yasunari kawabata, simply repeated.
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) - A brief biography, and a list of selected works with both English and Japanese titles.
Yasunari Kawabata Annotated Bibliography - Includes translated, and secondary sources. Put together by Allen Reichert, the electronic access librarian Otterbein College.
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