biography
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| (1899–1972)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Osaka, C Japan. He studied at Tokyo University, and published his first novel, The Dancer of Izu Province, in 1925. He experimented with various Western novel forms, but by the mid-1930s returned to traditional Japanese ones. Later novels include Yukiguni (1935–48, Snow Country), Sembazuru (1949, Thousand Cranes), and Yama no oto (1949–54, The Sound of the Mountain). He received the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Japanese writer to be given the award. |
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