Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

- The Dancing Girl of Izu and other Stories 1926 short-stories youth, innocence, desire, loneliness en

- Snow Country 1948 novel isolation, beauty, desire, nature en

- The Master of Go 1951 novel tradition, modernity, ritual, aging en

- Thousand Cranes 1952 novel tea, japan, desire, tradition en

- The Sound of the Mountain 1954 novel aging, memory, family, marriage, desire en

- Beauty and Sadness 1963 novel beauty, desire, art, memory en