Japan: Yasunari Kawabata (1899 -1972), novelist and essayist, smoking a cigarette, Ueno, c. 1932

Yasunari Kawabata (11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

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