Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
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Yasunari Kawabata
Prize share: 1/1
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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