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Shusaku Endo
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27 March 1923 - 29 September 1996
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Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a famous Japanese writer whose work was devoted to the study of the relationship between East and West, and from a unique point of view within the Japanese literary tradition - Catholic. His work was highly appreciated: Shusaku Endo was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and elected president of the Japanese PEN Club. He studied French literature at the University of Lyon (1950-1953), received the Akutagawa Prize for his debut novel The White Man (1955), became
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Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a famous Japanese writer whose work was devoted to the study of the relationship between East and West, and from a unique point of view within the Japanese literary tradition - Catholic. His work was highly appreciated: Shusaku Endo was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and elected president of the Japanese PEN Club. He studied French literature at the University of Lyon (1950-1953), received the Akutagawa Prize for his debut novel The White Man (1955), became widely known for the novel The Sea and Poison (1958) about the vivisectoral experiments of Japanese doctors on a captured American pilot and finally consolidated his fame with the books Silence (1966) and The Life of Jesus (1973).