Yasunari Kawabata
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1 (of 3) Yasunari Kawabata shades his eyes in bed at the Grand Hotel as he is about to be served coffee by the hotel's Lucia, Eva Rönnlund (second, right) on 13 December 1968 when he visited Stockholm to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
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2 (of 3) Yasunari Kawabata (left) meets Rene Maheu, Director-General of UNESCO in Paris, 18 December 1968.
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3 (of 3) Photo of Yasunari Kawabata's handwritten notes from his Nobel Lecture in 1968. Courtesy of The Swedish Academy.
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