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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
Yasunari Kawabata

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 was awarded to Yasunari Kawabata "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind".

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