He became a member of the Art Academy of Japan in 1953 and four years later he was appointed chairman of the P.E.N. In 1949, the publication of the serials Thousand Cranes and The Sound of the Mountain was commenced. After several distinguished works, the novel Snow Country in 1937 secured Kawabata’s position as one of the leading authors in Japan. Kawabata made his debut as a writer with the short story, Izu dancer, published in 1927. He was one of the founders of the publication Bungei Jidai, the medium of a new movement in modern Japanese literature. From 1920 to 1924, Kawabata studied at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he received his degree.
After the early death of his parents he was raised in the country by his maternal grandfather and attended the Japanese public school.
Y asunari Kawabata, son of a highly-cultivated physician, was born in 1899 in Osaka.
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