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About Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese writer who is best known for being the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. He was born in Osaka in 1899 and grew up in a household that valued literature. Kawabata wrote several novels and short stories that explored themes such as love, death, and the impermanence of life. His works often featured poetic and delicate prose that captured the essence of traditional Japanese aesthetics.
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