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Photograph: Peter Owen and Shusaku Endo (Peter Owen Archive)

Photograph: Peter Owen and Shusaku Endo (Peter Owen Archive)

Peter Owen was Shusaku Endo’s friend, English language publisher and agent for many years. In the Japan Times, Damian Flanagan talks about the author’s work, Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece Silence, and speculation as to why the acclaimed Japanese author never received the Nobe prize for literature: Jesus Christ, the Nobel Prize and Shusaku Endo

 

 

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