Yasunari Kawabata
writer,actor
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1899-06-14
- Day of Death: 1972-04-16 ( 73 years old )
- Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Also Known As: 川端康成
- IMDB:nm0442704
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.