Kawabata, Yasunari
Kawabata, Yasunari ( 1899 – 1972 ),Japanese novelist. After a Modernist early period, Kawabata developed a fascination with death, eroticism, and traditional Japanese aesthetics. A well-known early book is Izu Dancer ( 1926 ). Snow Country ( 1948 ) is another classic. Kawabata became the second Asian writer (after Tagore ) to win the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1968 . He committed suicide four years later.
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