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1901
2012
Prize category:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968

Yasunari Kawabata

Documentary

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.

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MLA style: "Yasunari Kawabata - Documentary". Nobelprize.org. 23 May 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-docu.html