Shūsaku Endō

Shūsaku Endō was born on 27 March 1923 in Tokyo and spent his childhood in Manchuria, where his parents had settled. After their divorce, he was baptised as a child in the Catholic Church. He studied literature at Keiō University, then stayed from 1950 to 1953 at the University of Lyon, where he read the French Catholic novelists. Stricken with tuberculosis, he underwent operations and lost a lung. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, he died on 29 September 1996.

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• NovelSilence沈黙Shūsaku Endō · 1966Literature