1968 川端康成 日本

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Yasunari Kawabata
Facts
Yasunari Kawabata
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Yasunari Kawabata
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968

Born: 11 June 1899, Osaka, Japan

Died: 16 April 1972, Zushi, Japan

Residence at the time of the award: Japan

Prize motivation: "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."

Language: Japanese

Prize share: 1/1

Life
Yasunari Kawabata was born in 1899 in Osaka, Japan. After the early death of his parents, he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended a Japanese public school. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree. He was one of the founders of the publication Bungei Jidai, the medium of a new movement in modern Japanese literature. He became a member of the Art Academy of Japan in 1953 and four years later he was appointed chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan.

Work
In 1927, Yasunari Kawabata made his debut as a writer with the short story Izu no odoriko (Izu dancer). After several distinguished works, the novel Yukiguni (1937) (Snow Country) secured Kawabata’s position as one of the leading authors in Japan. In 1949, Kawabata started the publication of the serials Senbazuru (Thousand Cranes) and Yama no Oto (The Sound of the Mountain). Mizuumi (1955) The Lake and Koto (1962) The Old Capital belong to his later works; The Old Capital made the deepest impression in the author’s native country and abroad.



川端康成
事实
川端康成
图片来自诺贝尔基金会档案。
川端康成
1968年诺贝尔文学奖得主

出生：1899年6月11日，日本大阪

逝世：1972年4月16日，日本祖市

获奖时的住所。日本

获奖动机。"因为他的叙事技巧，以极大的感性表达了日本人的思想精华"。

语言。日语

奖金份额。1/1

生平
川端康成1899年出生在日本大阪。父母早逝后，他在乡下由外祖父抚养，并在日本公立学校读书。1920年至1924年，川端在东京帝国大学学习，获得学位。他是刊物《文艺报》的创始人之一，是日本现代文学新运动的媒介。1953年，他成为日本艺术学院的成员，四年后他被任命为日本P.E.N.俱乐部的主席。

作品
1927年，川端康成以短篇小说《伊豆的舞女》首次作为作家亮相。在发表了几部杰出的作品后，小说《雪国》（1937年）确保了川端作为日本主要作家之一的地位。1949年，川端开始出版《千鹤》（Senbazuru）和《山之声》（Yama no Oto）的连载。水木》（1955年）《湖》和《古都》（1962年）属于他的后期作品；《古都》在作者的祖国和海外都留下了最深刻的印象。