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Yasunari Kawabata wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Kawabata is delighted at the decision to receive the prize.
On October 17, 1968, novelist Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kawabata, who has been writing with great sensitivity about the Japanese mind and the beauty of the Japanese climate since he published "Izu no Odoriko" at the age of 28, said upon receiving the award, "It is thanks to the Japanese literary tradition and to the translators. I am truly grateful to all of you," he said. Mr. Kawabata receiving a phone call at his home to congratulate him on receiving the award, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1968. Photographed by Takashi Yonezu on October 17. Mainichi Graph, November 3, 1968, page 9 Another cut
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