Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972)

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2. Yasunari Kawabata

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3. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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6. Kōbō Abe

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7. Nobel Foundation & The Swedish Academy (ed.)

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8. Alexis Gregory

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10. Osamu Dazai

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11. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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12. Kazuo Ishiguro

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13. Murasaki Shikibu

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14. Banana Yoshimoto

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15. Ryū Murakami

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16. Sei Shonagon

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17. Gao Xingjian

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18. Elias Canetti

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19. Italo Svevo

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20. Matsuo Bashō

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