I am looking for information about Yasunari Kawabata. Does anyone knows a really good page about him?

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I have search and the only thing that I cant find was a brief biography. I can read in spanish, english or french...

Answer 1

Yasunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka. After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree. He was one of the founders of the publication Bungei Jidai, the medium of a new movement in modern Japanese literature. Kawabata made his debut as a writer with the short story, Izu dancer, published in 1927. After several distinguished works, the novel Snow Country in 1937 secured Kawabata's position as one of the leading authors in Japan. In 1949, the publication of the serials Thousand Cranes and The Sound of the Mountain was commenced. He became a member of the Art Academy of Japan in 1953 and four years later he was appointed chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan. At several international congresses Kawabata was the Japanese delegate for this club. The Lake (1955), The Sleeping Beauty (1960) and The Old Capital (1962) belong to his later works, and of these novels, The Old Capital is the one that made the deepest impression in the author's native country and abroad. In 1959, Kawabata received the Goethe-medal in Frankfurt."

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Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari?, 14 June 1899 - 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
Born in Osaka, Yasunari was orphaned when he was two, after which he lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once thereafter, at the age of ten (July 1909). Kawabata's grandmother died when he was seven (September 1906, and his grandfather when he was fifteen (May 1914).
Having lost all close relatives, he moved in with his mother's family (the Kurodas). However, in January 1916, he moved into a boarding house near the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) to which he had formerly commuted by train. After graduating from junior high school in March 1917, just before his 18th birthday, he moved to Tokyo, hoping to pass the exams of Dai-ichi Koto-gakko (First Upper School), which was under the direction of Tokyo Imperial University. He succeeded in the exam the same year and entered the humanities faculty as an English major (July 1920).


A monument to the birthplace of Kawabata.


Kawabata Yasunari Museum
Kawabata graduated in 1924, by which time he had already caught the attention of Kikuchi Kan and other noted writers and editors through his submissions to Kikuchi's literary magazine, the Bungei Shunju.
In addition to fiction writing, Kawabata also worked as a reporter, most notably for the Mainichi Shimbun. Although he refused to participate in the militaristic fervor that accompanied World War II, he also demonstrated little interest in postwar political reforms. Along with the death of all his family while he was young, Kawabata suggested that the War was one of the greatest influences on his work, stating he would be able to write only elegies in postwar Japan. Still, many commentators detect little thematic change between Kawabata's prewar and postwar writings.
Kawabata apparently committed suicide in 1972 by gassing himself, but a number of close associates, including his widow, consider his death to have been accidental. Many theories have been advanced as to his reasons, among them poor health (the discovery that he had Parkinson's disease), a possible illicit love affair, or the shock caused by the suicide of his friend Yukio Mishima in 1970. However, unlike Mishima, Kawabata left no note, and since he had not discussed it significantly in his writings, his motives remain unclear.
Contents
1 Artistic career
2 Selected works
3 References
4 External links

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Kawabata's Stories Translated
Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors
New Yasunari Kawabata translations (submitted by Jedediah Berry)
Yasunari Kawabata in original on sounding CD (submitted by Izanagi)
Yasunari Kawabata Research (submitted by nitey)
Yasunari Kawabata: Research (submitted by nitey)
Yasunari Kawabata (submitted by Reinnite Madrid)
Information of 1968 winner of the prize for literature, Kawabata Yasunari (submitted by Sharif Mebed)
Yasunari Kawabata bibliography
Facts about YASUNARI KAWABATA (submitted by Miranda)
YASUNARI KAWABATA info (submitted by Carry)
BiographyYASUNARI KAWABATA (submitted by Sam)
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Kawabata Yasunari (1899 - 1972) (submitted by Samantha)
List of Works (submitted by Anonymous)
son of a highly-cultivated physician (submitted by Angel)
Yasunari Kawabata, a Japanese novelist (submitted by Anonymous)
Japanese novelist (submitted by Anonymous)
Yasunari Kawabata Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)

Answer 2

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