Are both Yasunari Kawabata and Antonin Artaud from the same country?
Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 , Kawabata Yasunari , 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
Alexander Kasyanov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kasyanov (Александр Александрович Касьянов; 17 August 1891 - Gorki 13 February 1982) was a Soviet Russian composer, conductor, pianist and professor. He received the Order of Lenin in 1967, Order of the October Revolution 1981, and People's Artist of the USSR 1971.