Yuya Sato (novelist)

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.

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
  • Flicker Style (フリッカー式, Furikka Shiki) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
  • Specific Gravity of the Soul Coated with Enamel (エナメルを塗った魂の比重, Enameru o Nutta Tamashii no Hiju) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
  • Sunken Piano (水没ピアノ, Suibotsu Piano) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
  • Kagami Sisters in the Flying Classroom (鏡姉妹の飛ぶ教室, Kagami Shimai no Tobu Kyoshitsu) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2005)
  • Cream Sodium Cyanide (青酸クリームソーダ, Seisan Kurimu Soda) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009)
• Short story collection
  • Nine Stories (ナイン・ストーリーズ, Nain Sutorizu) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2013)
    • "A Perfect Day for Cherryfish" (チェリーフィッシュにうってつけの日) (2004)
    • "My Dear Brother Weedy" (わたしのひょろひょろおにいちゃん) (2005)
    • "Just Before the War with the Robots" (対ロボット戦争の前夜) (2005)
    • "The Mourning Man" (憂い男) (2005)
    • "Down at the Rivulet" (小川のほとりで) (2004)
    • "For Naomi—with Love in Squalor" (ナオミに捧ぐ 愛も汚辱のうちに) (2005)
    • "Pretty My Eyes and Green Mouth" (愛らしき目もと 口は緑) (2005)
    • "Cordwainer Smith's Blue Period" (コードウェイナー・スミスの青の時代) (2012)
    • "Lady" (レディ) (2005)

Standalone novels

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

• Christmas Terror—Invisible/Inventor (クリスマス・テロル invisible × inventor) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
• 1000 Novels and Backbeard (1000の小説とバックベアード) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2007)
• Gray-Colored Diet Coke (灰色のダイエットコカコーラ) (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"
• The End of the End of the World (世界の終わりの終わり) (Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2007)
• Dendera (デンデラ) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2009)
• The Top of the 333 (333のテッペン) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2010)
• Nocturne for the Starry Sky (星の海にむけての夜想曲) (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2012)
• Bedside Murder Case (ベッドサイド・マーダーケース) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2013)
• Danganronpa Togami (ダンガンロンパ十神), (Seikaisha, Tokyo, 2015)^[3][4]

Short story collection

• Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit! (子供たち怒る怒る怒る) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2005)
  • Little House in the Flood (大洪水の小さな家)
  • , with a corpse (死体と、)
  • Urge (慾望)
  • Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit! (子供たち怒る怒る怒る)
  • Thank you for your being born! (生まれてきてくれてありがとう！)
  • The Licca-chan Human (リカちゃん人間)

Film adaptations

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

References

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)
3. ↑ 佐藤, 友哉; 高河, ゆん (28 November 2015). "ダンガンロンパ十神". 講談社 – via Amazon. 
4. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-29/novelist-to-launch-new-danganronpa-project-in-2015/.81580

External links

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