Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)
Posted on 2010 under Agus B. Harianto, Essay, Nurel Javissyarqi, PUstaka puJAngga, Yasunari Kawabata | 1 Comment8 Feb
Written by Nurel Javissyarqi
Translated by Agus B. Harianto
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka June 14, 1899, died in Kamakura, April, 16, 1972. Japanese novelist who through his prose of lyric won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. Became orphans at two years old, and then lived with his grandparents. His grandmother died when he was 7 years old, his sister was only once met after the death of his parents, and his sister died when Kawabata at 10 years old, and his grandfather too, when he was 15 years old. He moved to his mother’s family. Read more… »