is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Prize for Flicker Style, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. 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 (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) Short story collection (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2005) Film adaptations Dendera (2011) directed by Daisuke Tengan, the son of Shohei Imamura References External links J'Lit | Authors : Yuya Sato | Books from Japan 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese male short story writers Japanese mystery writers Japanese crime fiction writers Yukio Mishima Prize winners Living people 1980 births People from Chitose, Hokkaido Writers from Hokkaido 21st-century Japanese short story writers 21st-century male writers