Yasunari Kawabata (1899 ~ 1972) is a modern and contemporary Japanese novelist. Born in Osaka. My parents died when I was very young, and so did my grandparents and sister. Loneliness and melancholy accompanied him all his life, which was reflected in his creation. When I was studying Chinese at the University of Tokyo, I participated in the reissue of the magazine New Trend of Thought (No.6). 1924 graduated. In the same year, he founded Literature Times magazine with Yoko Hiroshi, and later became one of the central figures of the new sensation school born from it. After the decline of Neo-sensualism, he joined the Art Nouveau and the New Psychological Literature Movement, and wrote more than 100 novels in his life, with more short stories than long ones. His works are lyrical and pursue the lofty beauty of life, which is deeply influenced by Buddhist thought and nihilism. In the early days, many lower-class women were the protagonists of novels, writing about their purity and misfortune. Later, some works wrote about the abnormal love psychology between close relatives and even the elderly, showing a decadent side.
The famous novel Dancer of Izu (1926) describes the miserable life of a high school student and a tramp. The representative work Snow Country (1935 ~ 1937) describes the physical and mental purity and beauty of women at the bottom of the snow country, as well as the writer's deep sense of nothingness. Other works include Red Flower of Asakusa (1929 ~ 1930), Crystal Fantasy (193 1) and Thousand Cranes (1949 ~1). Yasunari Kawabata served as the vice president of the International PEN and the president of the Japanese PEN. 1957 was elected as a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts. He was awarded the Cultural Medal of the Japanese Government and the Cultural and Art Medal of the French Government. 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1972 committed suicide in the studio. Many works have been translated and published in China.