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 Award for Flicker Style,[1] and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard.[2] A few of his works have been published in the English edition of Faust. His works have been translated into Chinese and Korean.[3][4]
Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.
List of works
Short stories available in English Language Translation
- Gray-Colored Diet Coke (FAUST 2、Del Rey、2009) - This story was named after Kenji Nakagami's Gray-Colored Coke.[5]
Books
- フリッカー式(Flicker Style) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001) - the winner of the 21st Mephisto Award
- エナメルを塗った魂の比重(Specific Gravity of the Soul Coated with Enamel) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2001)
- 水没ピアノ(Sunken Piano) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
- クリスマス・テロル invisible × inventor(Christmas Terror –invisible/ inventor) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2002)
- 鏡姉妹の飛ぶ教室(Kagami Sisters in the Flying Classroom) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2005)
- 子供たち怒る怒る怒る(Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit!) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2005) - Nominated for the 27th Noma Literary New Face Award
- 大洪水の小さな家(Little House in the Flood)
- 死体と、( , with a corpse)
- 慾望(Urge)
- 子供たち怒る怒る怒る(Children Shout Shit! Shit! Shit!)
- 生まれてきてくれてありがとう！(Thank you for your being born!)
- リカちゃん人形(The Licca-chan Human)
- 1000の小説とバックベアード(1000 Novels and Backbeard) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2007) - the winner of the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize
- 灰色のダイエットコカコーラ(Gray-Colored Diet Coke) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2007) - Nominated for the 29th Noma Literary New Face Award
- 世界の終わりの終わり(The End of “End of the World”) (Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2007)
- 青酸クリームソーダ(Cream Sodium Cyanide) (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009)
- デンデラ(Den-Dera) (Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2009)
Short stories
- チェリーフィッシュにうってつけの日(A Perfect Day for Cherryfish) (2004)
- 小川のほとりで(Down at the Rivulet) (2004)
- わたしのひょろひょろおにいちゃん(My Dear Brother Weedy) (2005)
- 対ロボット戦争の前夜(Just Before the War with the Robots) (2005)
- ナオミに捧ぐ 愛も汚辱のうちに(For Naomi -with Love in Squalor) (2005)
- 憂い男(The Mourning Man) (2005)
- 愛らしき目元 口は緑(Pretty My Eyes and Green Mouth) (2005)
- レディ(Lady) (2005)
References
- ^ The list of the winners of the Mephisto Prize on Kodansha's website(Japanese)
- ^ The list of the winners of the Yukio Mishima Prize on Shinchosha's website(Japanese)
- ^ The list of Yuya Sato's books published in Taiwan on Sharp Point Publishing Group's website(Chinese)
- ^ One of the Yuya Sato's books published in South Korea on Haksan Publishing Company(Korean)
- ^ Only a translated short excerpt from the novel is included in Faust 2
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