Documentary about Yasunari Kawabata (no sound)(< 1 minute)

On 19 October 1968, the Swedish ambassador to Japan, Mr. Karl Fredrik Almqvist, called on the writer Yasunari Kawabata at his home in Kamakura, about 50 km south-west of Tokyo, to inform him officially that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1968. Copyright © ITN Source/Reuters 2004

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968