Yasunari Kawabata
Novelist

Yasunari Kawabata Net Worth

Yasunari Kawabata was a renowned Japanese writer and journalist born on June 11, 1899. He is best known for his novels The Old Capital, Thousand Cranes, and Snow Country, and was the first Japanese citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He worked for the Tokyo-based Mainichi Shimbun newspaper throughout his career.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day June 11, 1899
Birth Place Japan
Age 120 YEARS OLD
Died On Apr 16, 1972 (age 72)
Birth Sign Gemini

💰 Net worth: $2 Million (2024)

About

Remembered for his novels The Old Capital, Thousand Cranes, and Snow Country, this acclaimed Writer was the first Japanese citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. A Journalist as well as a fiction Writer, he was employed by the Tokyo-based Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.

Before Fame

While studying at Tokyo University, he founded a literary journal called Shin-Shichō and published his debut short story, "Shokonsai Ikkei."

Trivia

The music Composer Purusha incorporated passages from Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories into an electronic track titled "Water Flea."

Family Life

Sadly, his parents had both died by the time he was four, and his grandmother and grandfather died when he was seven and fifteen, respectively. He later married a woman named Hideko.

Associated With

One factor in Kawabata's 1972 apparent suicide may have been the 1970 suicide of his close friend and fellow author, Yukio Mishima.

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