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         Kawabata Yasunari:     more books (100)
  1. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-01-30
  2. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-11-26
  3. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, 2006-11-14
  4. The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, 2006-01-10
  5. Pays de neige by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-03-07
  6. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-05-28
  7. Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-01-30
  8. The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, 1998-08-29
  9. The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata, 2004-07-08
  10. Japan the Beautiful and Myself by Yasunari Kawabata, 1981-09
  11. The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1996-05-28
  12. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Kodansha's Illustrated Japanese Classics) by Yasunari Kawabata, 1998-09-16
  13. First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata, 2000-11-10
  14. Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata (Japan Library) by Roy Starrs, 1998-10-05

1. Literature 1968
The nobel Prize in Literature 1968 Presentation Speech yasunari kawabata Biographynobel Lecture Banquet Speech Swedish nobel Stamps Other Resources. 1967, 1969.
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2. Yasunari Kawabata - Biography
In 1959, kawabata received the Goethemedal in Frankfurt. yasunari kawabatadied in 1972 (suicide). From nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980.
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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 The Sleeping Beauty (1960) and The Old Capital (1962) belong to his later works, and of these novels

3. Yasunari Kawabata Winner Of The 1968 Nobel Prize In Literature
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4. Index Of Nobel Laureates In Literature
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF nobel PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE. Name, Year Awarded.Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1966. Karlfeldt, Erik Axel, 1931. kawabata, yasunari, 1968.
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5. Yasunari Kawabata
A brief biography, and a list of selected works with both English and Japanese titles.Category Arts Literature Authors K kawabata, yasunari......First Japanese novelist, who won the nobel Prize for Literature (1968). yasunarikawabata was born in Osaka into a prosperous and cultured family.
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B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) First Japanese novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). Many of Kawabata's book explore melancholically the place of sex in culture and people's lives. His works combined old Japan's beauty with modernist trends, realism with surrealistic visions. Over the course of his life, Kawabata wrote more than a hundred 'palm-of-the-hand' stories - as the author called them. They were usually two or three pages long, and expressed according to Kawabata the essence of his art. In one of the stories, 'Up in the Tree,' Michiko and Keisuke, both fourth graders, share a secret. Keisuke tells her that his parents quarrel, and his father has another woman. He once climbed a tree in the garden so that his mother couldn't take him and go back to her parents' house. Since then he has been up in the tree a lot. "The "secret" of their being up in the tree had continued for almost two years now. Where the thick trunk branched out near the top, the two could sit comfortably. Michiko, straddling one branch, leaned back against another. There were days when little birds came and days when the wind sang through the pine needles. Although they weren't that high off the ground, these two little lovers felt as if they were in a completely different world, far away from the earth."
(from 'Up in the Tree') Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka into a prosperous and cultured family. He learned to know loneliness and rootlessness early - he was orphaned at age of three, his grandmother died when he was seven, and his only sister when he was nine. The family deaths deprived Kawabata of normal childhood and some critics has seen that these early traumas formed the background for the sense of loss and regret which run through his writing. In 1920 he started his literature studies at Tokyo Imperial University, and graduated in 1924. With a group of young writers, Kawabata founded the journal

6. Yasunari Kawabata : Nobel Prize Winner In Literature - A Star In The Creative Li
yasunari kawabata nobel Prize Winner in Literature a star in thecreative literary firmament! A great vista to behold, a fine
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    kawabata yasunari, 1968. UPI/CorbisBettmann. (b. June 11, 1899, Osaka, Japand.April 16, 1972, Zushi), Japanese novelist who won the nobel Prize for
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    Kawabata Yasunari, 1968 UPI/Corbis-Bettmann (b. June 11, 1899, O saka, Japand. April 16, 1972, Zushi), Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His melancholic lyricism echoes an ancient Japanese literary tradition in the modern idiom. The sense of loneliness and preoccupation with death that permeates much of Kawabata's mature writing possibly derives from the loneliness of his childhood (he was orphaned early and lost all near relatives while still in his youth). He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and made his entrance into the literary world with the semiautobiographical Izu no odoriko The Izu Dancer ). It appeared in the journal Bungei jidai ("The Artistic Age"), which he founded with the writer Yokomitsu Riichi; this journal became the organ of the Neosensualist group with which Kawabata was early associated. This school is said to have derived much of its aesthetic from such post-World War I French literary currents as Dadaism and Expressionism. Their influence on Kawabata's novels may be seen in the abrupt transitions between separate brief, lyrical episodes; in imagery that is frequently startling in its mixture of incongruous impressions; and in his juxtaposition of the beautiful and the ugly. These same qualities, however, are present in Japanese prose of the 17th century and in the renga (linked verse) of the 15th century. It is to the latter that Kawabata's fiction seemed to draw nearer in later years.

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    Sachs, Nelly, Sweden, poet. 1967, Asturias, Miguel Ángel, Guatemala, novelist. 1968,kawabata yasunari, Japan, novelist. 1969, Beckett, Samuel, Ireland, novelist, dramatist.
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    Year Article Country* Literary Area Sully Prudhomme France poet Mommsen, Theodor Germany historian Norway novelist, poet, dramatist Spain dramatist France poet Sienkiewicz, Henryk Poland novelist Italy poet Kipling, Rudyard U.K. poet, novelist Eucken, Rudolf Christoph Germany philosopher Sweden novelist Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Germany poet, novelist, dramatist Maeterlinck, Maurice Belgium dramatist Hauptmann, Gerhart Germany dramatist Tagore, Rabindranath India poet Rolland, Romain France novelist Heidenstam, Verner von Sweden poet Gjellerup, Karl Denmark novelist Pontoppidan, Henrik Denmark novelist Karlfeldt, Erik Axel (declined) Sweden poet Spitteler, Carl Switzerland poet, novelist Hamsun, Knut Norway novelist France, Anatole France novelist Spain dramatist Yeats, William Butler Ireland poet Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Poland novelist Shaw, George Bernard Ireland dramatist Deledda, Grazia Italy novelist Bergson, Henri France philosopher Undset, Sigrid Norway novelist Mann, Thomas Germany novelist Lewis, Sinclair U.S. novelist Karlfeldt, Erik Axel

    10. Kawabata, Yasunari: "The Izu Dancer"
    2. nobel Prize Library published under the sponsorship of the nobelfoundation and the Swedish academy yasunari kawabata 1971. This
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      Arranging the following quotes in the correct order they take place in the story follows: "'He is a high school boy,' one of the young women whispered to the little dancer, giggling as I glanced back. 'Really, even I know that much,' the girl retorted." "He wondered 'Who would be with her the rest of the night?'" "She was a child, a mere child, a child who could run out naked into the sun and stand there on her tiptoes in her delight at seeing a friend." "I took the book happily, a certain hope in my mind." "I had come at nineteen to think of myself as a misanthrope, a lonely misfit, and it was my depression at the thought that had driven me to this Izu trip." "I had explained that I would have to go back to Tokyo on the morning boat." "As we came to the pier I saw with a quick jump of the heart that the little dancer was sitting at the water's edge."
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    11. Kawabata, Yasunari: "The Izu Dancer"
    one of Japanfs most distinguished novelists nobel Prize for kawabata was famousfor adding to the once fashionable naturalism imported from France a sensual
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      Kawabata's Life:
      -Born 1899 in Osaka Died 1972 committed suicide -at an early age, he was deprived of this favorable growing-up environment on the sudden death of his parents and as an only child he was sent to his blind grandfather in a remote part of the country -as a boy, he hoped to be a painter, an inspiration still reflected in his novels -his first stories were published in high school and it was then that he decided to become a writer -went to Tokyo Imperial University and graduated in 1924 with a degree in Japanese Literature -in university, he was an example of the kind of restless absorption that was always a condition of the literary calling -met a girl, 16 yrs old, at age 25 yrs which thereafter she left him sad and lonely, which had a direct result in his writing Izu no Odoriko -during his writing career, he lived in Kamakura -in 1948, he was appointed chairman of the Japanese Center of the P.E.N. Club -he became involved in politics but failed to become a politician -one of Japanfs most distinguished novelists: Nobel Prize for Literature winner in 1968 -he was a prominent literary critic and discovered many remarkable young writers such as Yukio Mishima
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      -Kawabata was famous for adding to the once fashionable naturalism imported from France a sensual, more Japanese impressionism

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    Kawabata Yasunari, the novelist, was born in Osaka in 1899. He lost one family member after another in his infancy and became an orphan by the age of 15.
    While continuing dormitory life, he advanced to the First Higher School and Tokyo Imperial University. With his classmates he launched the 6th series of Shinshicho (New Currents of Thought) in 1921. The story "Shokonsai Ikkei," contributed to the second number, was recognized by Kikuchi Kan and marked his entry into the literary world.
    He brought out the magazine "Bungei Jidai" (Literary Age) in 1924 with Yokomitsu Riichi, Kataoka Teppei and Kon Toko and became a representative novelist of the Shinkankaku (New sensibilities) school. By the early stages of the Showa period, he had become a central existence of the Shinko Geijutsuha (New Art school). He released a succession of masterpieces, among them, "Izu no Odoriko" (tr The Izu Dancer) "Yukiguni" (tr Snow Country), "Senba Zuru" (tr Thousand Cranes), "Yama no Oto" (tr The Sound of the Mountain), "Mizu Umi" (Lake) and "Koto" (Ancient Capital).
    In 1968 he became the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to his creative activity, as the chairman of the Japan P.E.N. club, he organized the Tokyo meeting of the International P.E.N. club in 1957 and was nominated to the post of vice president of the world forum. His interests spread far and wide, and he was invited to join fellow Nobel laureate Yukawa Hideki on the Committee of Seven to Appeal for World Peace. He died in 1972 at the age of 72.

    19. Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, The Beautiful And Myself (Nobel Lecture, December 12,
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    Japan, the Beautiful and Myself "In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo.
    In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold."
    "The winter moon comes from the clouds to keep me company.
    The wind is piercing, the snow is cold." The first of these poems is by the priest Dogen (1200-1253) and bears the title "Innate Spirit". The second is by the priest Myöe (1173-1232). When I am asked for specimens of calligraphy, it is these poems that I often choose. The second poem bears an unusually detailed account of its origins, such as to be an explanation of the heart of its meaning: "On the night of the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the year 1224, the moon was behind clouds. I sat in Zen meditation in the Kakyu-Hall. When the hour of the midnight vigil came, I ceased meditation and descended from the hall on the peak to the lower quarters, and as I did so the moon came from the clouds and set the snow to glowing. The moon was my companion, and not even the wolf howling in the valley brought fear. When, presently, I came out of the lower quarters again, the moon was again behind clouds. As the bell was signalling the late-night vigil, I made my way once more to the peak, and the moon saw me on the way. I entered the meditation hall, and the moon, chasing the clouds, was about to sink behind the peak beyond, and it seemed to me that it was keeping me secret company."

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    Kawabata, Yasunari 1899-1972, Japanese novelist. His first major work, The Izu Dancer, was published in 1925. He came to be a leader of the school of Japanese writers that propounded a lyrical and impressionistic style, in opposition to the proletarian literature of the 1920s. Kawabata's melancholy novels often treat, in a delicate, oblique fashion, sexual relationships between men and women. For example, Snow Country (tr. 1956), probably his best-known work in the West, depicts the affair of an aging geisha and an insensitive Tokyo businessman. All Kawabata's works are distinguished by a masterful, and frequently arresting, use of imagery. Among his works in English translation are the novels Thousand Cranes (tr. 1959), The Sound of the Mountain (tr. 1970), and The Lake (tr. 1974), and the volume of short stories, The House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (tr. 1969). In 1968, Kawabata became the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Four years later, in declining health and probably depressed by the suicide of his friend Yukio Mishima, he committed suicide.
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