 Her book about him, "Natsu no Shiori – Nakano Shigeharu o okuru" (Memories of Summer – a Farewell to Shigeharu Nakano) was awarded the Mainichi Art Award in 1983.Most of Sata's work was translated into Russian in the Sixties and Seventies.Two short stories from the prize-winning collection "Toki ni tatsu" (Standing Still in Time) have been translated into English.