Snow country and thousand cranes6/23/2023 ![]() Such studies show that the selectors turned to Japanese literature as the result of deciding to correct the imbalance favoring Western writers. After 50 years, documents concerning the prize selection process are made public, and with some further research, the path to each writer’s award becomes apparent. More than half a century has passed since then. ![]() On October 17, 1968, Kawabata Yasunari was chosen by the Swedish Academy as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.” The news of the first Japanese writer to receive the prize made headlines in his home country and across the world. ![]()
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