Shūsaku Endō

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Shūsaku Endō (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Shūsaku Endō (ehn-doh) was born in Tokyo, Japan, but spent his early years in Dalian, Manchuria. After Endō’s parents were divorced, his mother returned with her two sons to Tokyo and together with her sister and her sons converted to Catholicism. This religious conversion was perhaps the single most important event in Endō’s life. He became one of Japan’s most admired and widely read novelists, as well as an important writer for the Christian Western world, where he has been hailed as a significant religious novelist by John Updike and Irving Howe, among others. That he has...

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