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Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, yesterday hailed the selection of Yasunari Kawabata for the Nobel Prize in literature as a long overdue recognition of Japanese literature...
...Japanese are now concentrating on sex and sensibility in their novels (Junichiro Tanizaki's The Key, Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion), and the emotions of a single person interest them more than the entire Pacific war. "We are grass eaters here," says one Japanese writer good-humoredly. "So meaty a subject as war guilt is physically incompatible with...
...Honorable mentions: Japan's Minoru Kawabata, 47; France's Edouard Pignon, 53; Canada's Jean-Paul Riopelle, 35; Portugal's Maria Helena Vieira da Silva...