Shūsaku Endō

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Shūsaku Endō was a prominent 20th-century Japanese novelist best known internationally for his historical Christian-themed novel "Silence."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
novelist
activePeriod 20th century
awardReceived Akutagawa Prize NERFINISHED
Tanizaki Prize NERFINISHED
burialPlace Tamagawa Cemetery NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath lung cancer
countryOfCitizenship Japan
dateOfBirth 1923-03-27
dateOfDeath 1996-09-29
educatedAt Keio University NERFINISHED
Lyon Catholic University NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Japanese
familyName Endō NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork literature
novel writing
genre Christian literature
historical fiction
psychological fiction
givenName Shūsaku NERFINISHED
hasAdaptation film "Silence" (1971) NERFINISHED
film "Silence" (2016) NERFINISHED
influenced contemporary Japanese Christian writers
influencedBy Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED
Graham Greene NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
movement postwar Japanese literature
name Shūsaku Endō NERFINISHED
nativeName 遠藤周作 NERFINISHED
notableWork Deep River NERFINISHED
Silence NERFINISHED
The Samurai NERFINISHED
The Sea and Poison NERFINISHED
Wonderful Fool NERFINISHED
occupation essayist
novelist
placeOfBirth Japan NERFINISHED
Tokyo NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Japan NERFINISHED
Tokyo NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
religiousConversion baptized as a Catholic in childhood
sexOrGender male
workFocus Christianity in Japan NERFINISHED
cultural conflict between Japan and the West
faith and doubt
writingStyle exploration of moral and theological dilemmas

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