Yasunari Kawabata - President of Japanese P.E.N.
Time: 1950s
Place: Japan
Details: As the president of Japanese P.E.N. for many years after the war, from 1948 to 1965, Kawabata was a driving force behind the translation of Japanese literature into English and other Western languages.
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