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Ka⋅wa⋅ba⋅ta

  [kah-wuh-bah-tuh; Japn. kah-wah-bah-tah]
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–noun
Ya⋅su⋅na⋅ri  [yah-soo-nah-ree] , 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel prize 1968.
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Ka·wa·ba·ta   (kä'wə-bä'tə)   
Japanese writer whose novels, including Thousand Cranes (1959), often concern alienated, lonely individuals in search of beauty and purity. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature.
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