Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (died 1996)

Shūsaku Endō

Japanese writer (1923–1996)

Shūsaku Endō 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. He was the laureate of several…