![]() ![]() The publication of his crowing work resulted not only in critical success, but also invitations from the Portuguese Ambassador to Japan and a medal from the Vatican. Endō published his pinnacle novel Silence in 1966, and his characters’ long struggles in this book were undoubtedly influenced by his own years of pain. Endō published another award-winning novel, Wonderful Fool, in 1958, but in 1959 severe tuberculosis and a second case of pleurisy hospitalized for the following two years, resulting in several surgeries, the loss of one lung, and a newfound sympathy for suffering characters in his writing. ![]() However, Endō finished his second degree in 1953 and published his first novel Shiroihito in 1955, winning a Japanese literature prize for young writers, and married and had a son soon after. During his study in France, Endō contracted pleurisy (a lung condition). ![]() in French Literature in 1949 and then moved on to the University of Lyons, where he studied Catholic fiction. Endō attended university in 1943, though his academic career was disrupted by Japan’s entrance into World War II where he was enlisted in a munitions factory poor health exempted him from becoming a soldier. Shortly after the return to Tokyo, Endō became a Catholic, as did his mother. Though his family lived in Manchuria for 10 years, following his mother’s divorce, Endō and his mother returned to Japan and lived in Kobe with his aunt. ![]()
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