"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."
Date
10 October 1968 (announcement)
10 December 1968 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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Nobel Prize in Literature
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The 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."[1] He is the first Japanese recipient of the prize.
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