WRITER

Shūsaku Endō

1923 - 1996

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Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作, Endō Shūsaku, March 27, 1923 – September 29, 1996) 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 prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shūsaku Endō has received more than 688,300 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Shūsaku Endō is the 1,020th most popular writer (up from 1,285th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Japan (up from 282nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 690k

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  • 61.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shūsaku Endō ranks 1,020 out of 7,302. Before him are William Gibson, Vasily Zhukovsky, Thomas De Quincey, André Bazin, August Kubizek, and Mary Higgins Clark. After him are Egill Skallagrímsson, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guido Cavalcanti, Persius, Hrotsvitha, and Marguerite Porete.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Shūsaku Endō ranks 45. Before him are Stjepan Bobek, Philip Warren Anderson, Alice Miller, Mauno Koivisto, Erland Josephson, and Edgar F. Codd. After him are Glynis Johns, René Thom, Aristides Pereira, Walter Kohn, Queen Anne of Romania, and Norman Mailer. Among people deceased in 1996, Shūsaku Endō ranks 41. Before him are Nicu Ceaușescu, Mohammad Najibullah, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Victor Ambartsumian, William Vickrey, and António de Spínola. After him are Claudette Colbert, Georges Duby, Alain Poher, Fujiko Fujio, Timothy Leary, and P. L. Travers.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shūsaku Endō ranks 205 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Empress Genshō (680), Leo Esaki (1925), Yukio Hatoyama (1947), and Emperor Buretsu (489). After him are Emperor Richū (336), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Yozo Aoki (1929), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Issei Sagawa (1949), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Shūsaku Endō ranks 21. Before him are Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Masaru Emoto (1943), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Kobayashi Issa (1763), Shoko Asahara (1955), and Mori Ōgai (1862). After him are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Yosano Akiko (1878), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872).

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