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Kawabata

(kä′wä bä′tä)

Kawabata, Yasunari 1899-1972; Jpn. writer

See Kawabata in American Heritage Dictionary 4

Japanese writer whose novels, including Thousand Cranes (1959), often concern alienated, lonely individuals in search of beauty and purity. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature.

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