| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Number: | 34 - 0 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1899 |
| Year, Death: | 1972 |
| Profession: | Japanese novelist and short story writer |
| Country: | JAPAN (JP) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Howard Hibbet |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1920 |
| Year, Death: | 2019 |
| Profession: | Professor of Japanese Literature |
| University: | Harvard University |
| City: | Cambridge |
| State: | MA |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |