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Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作, Endō Shūsaku, March 27, 1923 – September 29, 1996) was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese.
Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. It tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion .
- Shūsaku Endō
- 1966
Shusaku Endo ( 遠藤周作 ), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven.
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Endō Shūsaku (born March 27, 1923, Tokyo, Japan—died Sept. 29, 1996, Tokyo) was a Japanese novelist noted for his examination of the relationship between East and West through a Christian perspective. Endō became a Roman Catholic at age 11 with the encouragement of his mother and an aunt.
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Shūsaku Endō has 366 books on Goodreads with 135405 ratings. Shūsaku Endō’s most popular book is Silence.
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Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作 Endō Shusaku, (March 27, 1923 - September 29, 1996) was a twentieth–century Japanese author who wrote about the relationship between East and West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic.
