On April 11, 2017, on the occasion of the screening of the 2016 film Silence, based on Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, and a conversation with its director Martin Scorsese, staff of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections exhibited a selection of items relating to Endō and Graham Greene. Both Endō and Scorsese have cited Greene as a significant influence.
This items in the online exhibition, part of Georgetown's rich holdings of Catholic literary figures, testify to the inter-relatedness of the work of all three. See the Library’s first edition copy of the English translation of Silence, inscribed by Graham Greene to his friend Leopoldo Duran; Shūsaku Endō’s correspondence about the possibility of his novel being translated to film; original Japanese language manuscripts in Endō’s hand; and much more on the exhibition page!