Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Prize

Time: Wednesday Oct 16, 1968

Place: Stockholm, Sweden

Details: On 16 October 1968, Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Japanese person to receive such a distinction. In awarding the prize "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind", the Nobel Committee cited three of his novels, Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Old Capital.

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