Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980 (Nobel Lectures, Including Presentation Speeches and Laureate)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: May 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789810211752
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; Literary Prizes; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Reference; History: American; Nobel Prizes; Authors; 20th century; Biography; History and criticism; Literature, Modern
First sentence: The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the Japanese Yasunari Kawabata, was born in 1899 in the big industrial town of Osaka, where his father was a highly cultured doctor with literary interests.