# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shusaku-endo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:20:39.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shusaku-endo"
name: "Shūsaku Endō"
slug: "shusaku-endo"
description: "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 prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI."
tagline: "Author from Japan (1923–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shusaku-Endo-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1923-03-27"
deathDate: "1996-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump