Peter Owen and Shusaku Endo (Peter Owen Archive); accessible via the public domain. Owen was Endo’s friend, English language publisher, and agent for many years. Photo not included with the obituary.

(1996) Writer Explored the World of the Unheroic [obituary to Shusaku Endo]

Graham Greene described Shusaku Endo, a Japanese who converted to Catholicism, as “one of the finest novelists of our time.” Irving Howe hailed him as “one of the most accomplished writers… living in Japan or anywhere else”, and A.N. Wilson said of one novel: “Endo is always a moralist, but When I Whistle shows him to be a great artist as well.” Endo, one of Japan’s leading writers, was well known.

The first editition of Koestler’s novel (1940).

(1983) Darkness at Noon

When Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon was published in France its importance could be measured by the French Communist Party’s response, which was to purchase thousands as they ran off the press for the sole purpose of burning and destroying them.