Hi yes you should know about this guy called Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was the winner of the 1968 Nobel literacy prize. He won because, as the Nobel prize academy say "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was born on June 11th 1899, Osaka, Japan and was orphaned as a young boy. He also lost most of his known relatives at a young age, this is believed to be why death and loneliness has such a strong presence in his works. Kawabata would proceed to attend and graduate from Tokyo imperial university in 1924 and make his debut into the world of writing with his short story Izu no odoriko (Izu dancer, 1927). He also created a journal, Bungei Jidai, with another writer, Yokomitsu Riichi.  He eventually went on to write Yukiguni (Snow country, 1948) which established him as a leading writer in Japan. His other notable works include Sembazuru (Thousand Cranes, Never completed), Yama no oto (The Sound of the Mountain, 1954), and The Old Capital (1962) among others. Kawabata was also a candidate for the Nobel literacy prize more than once, in fact almost every year but was never nominated nor did he win after his initial win in 1968. He would later commit suicide via inhaling gas on April 16th, Zushi, Japan after the death of his close friend Mishima Yukio.


Disclaimer: First I'm not saying any of the following stuff is true I just found the circumstances interesting and fell into a bit of rabbit hole. Secondly you don't have to read this part if you don't want to. Thirdly (If that's even a word) This is in NO WAY the truth because, again, this is just under suspicion and is just a theory. 

So you may notice that he committed suicide after his friend Mishima Yukio which may have you wondering, who is Mishima Yukio? Well from what I found Mishima Yukio was another well known Japanese author and even though him and Yasunario Kawabata were both candidates they were known for being close friends. Now what's interesting about this to me is the fact that they were close friends and Mishima Yukio was known for being very open about his sexuality. If you don't know what that is code for then let me explain it for you; he was gay. Very gay. Massively gay. Now not everyone commits suicide after their close gay friend dies do they? Now, again, I'm not saying that they possibly were more than close friends but I am saying there was a chance they could have been.

Sources

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kawabata-Yasunari

Nobel Prize website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/kawabata/facts/

Mishima's Britannica page: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yukio-Mishima