Nobel laureate
Yasunari Kawabata — Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
“for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind”
Prize motivation
“for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind”
The Swedish Academy awarded Yasunari Kawabata the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.
Other laureates of the 1960s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).