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Article: Shusaku Endo; wrote about moral dilemmas
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
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TOKYO Shusaku Endo, a Catholic novelist who wrote about moral
dilemmas and the difficulties of reconciling his Western faith with
Japanese ideas, died Sunday. He was 73.
Mr. Endo, who also wrote humorous works, had received virtually
every major literary award in Japan and had been nominated for the
Nobel Prize.
Kyodo News said Mr. Endo died of complications from hepatitis
after he had been unconscious for about a week. He had been
hospitalized since June 22 with kidney trouble.
He received Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize for Shiroi Hito
(White People) in 1955, describing conflicts of good and evil in
humans.
In Umi to Dokuyaku, published in English as The Sea and Poison
in 1972, he ...