Yuya Sato (novelist) explained

Yuya Sato
Birth Date:	1980 12, df=yes
Birth Place:	Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan
Occupation:	Writer
Language:	Japanese
Period:	2001–present
Genre:	Fiction, crime fiction, thriller, science fiction
Awards:	Mephisto Prize (2001) Mishima Prize (2007)

is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Prize for Flicker Style,^[1] and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard.^[2] His works have been translated into English, Chinese and Korean. Sato's short story "Same As Always" was translated for The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018), and has been described as "an acerbic meditation on the complex interplay of gender and nurturing in post-Fukushima Japan."

Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.

Works in English translation

Novel

• Dendera, trans. Nathan Collins and Edwin Hawkes (Haikasoru, 2015)

Short story

• "Gray-Colored Diet Coke" (Faust 2, Del Rey, 2009)

This is a stand-alone short story and is also the first chapter of his Novel Gray-Colored Diet Coke. The title was named after Kenji Nakagami's Gray-Colored Coke.

Awards and nominations

• 2001 – Mephisto Prize: Furikka Shiki (Flicker Style) (Novel)
• 2005 – Nominee for Noma Literary New Face Prize: Kodomo-tachi Okoru Okoru Okoru (Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit!) (Short story collection)
• 2007 – Mishima Yukio Prize: Sen no Shosetsu to Bakkubeado (1000 Novels and Backbeard) (Novel)
• 2007 – Nominee for Noma Literary New Face Prize: Gray-Colored Diet Coke (Novel)

Bibliography

Kagami family series

• Novels
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2005)
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009)
• Short story collection
  • (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2013)
    • (2004)
    • (2005)
    • (2005)
    • (2005)
    • (2004)
    • (2005)
    • (2005)
    • (2012)
    • (2005)

Standalone novels

Some of these books are not novels but collections of linked short stories.

• (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
• (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2007)
• (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2007)
  • Chapter 1:"Gray-Colored Diet Coke"
  • Chapter 2:"Red-Colored Moscow Mule"
  • Chapter 3:"Black-Colored Pocari Sweat"
  • Chapter 4:"Rainbow-Colored Diet Coke with Lemon"
• (Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2007)
• (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2009)
• (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2010)
• (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2012)
• (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2013)
• , (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2015)^{[3] [4]}

Short story collection

• (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2005)

Film adaptations

• Dendera (2011) directed by Daisuke Tengan, the son of Shohei Imamura

References

1. http://kodansha-novels.jp/mephisto/index.html The list of the winners of the Mephisto Prize on Kodansha's website (Japanese)
2. http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/prizes/mishimasho/archive.html The list of the winners of the Yukio Mishima Prize on Shinchosha's website(Japanese)
3. Book: ダンガンロンパ十神. 友哉. 佐藤. ゆん. 高河. 28 November 2015. 講談社. .
4. Web site: Novelist to Launch New Danganronpa Project in 2015.

External links

• J'Lit | Authors : Yuya Sato | Books from Japan