Yuya Sato (novelist)

Yuya Sato
Born (1980-12-07) 7 December 1980 (age 43)
Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan
OccupationWriter
LanguageJapanese
Period2001–present
GenreFiction, crime fiction, thriller, science fiction
Notable awardsMephisto Prize (2001)
Mishima Prize (2007)

Yuya Sato (佐藤友哉, Satō Yūya, born 1980) 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.

  1. ^ The list of the winners of the Mephisto Prize on Kodansha's website (Japanese)
  2. ^ The list of the winners of the Yukio Mishima Prize on Shinchosha's website(Japanese)