Timeline Sunday 16 April 1972

Events on Sunday 16 April 1972 1

• 1899 – 1972 Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Died 16 April 1972, aged 72 Kawabata was a Japanese novelist known for spare, lyrical works such as "Snow Country" and "Thousand Cranes," and became the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1968. He died by suicide in his seaside studio. He is regarded as one of the most important Japanese writers of the twentieth century.