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Occupation
  
Writer

Role
  
Novelist

Language
  
Japanese

Movies
  
Dendera

Period
  
2001–present

Books
  
Dendera

Name
  
Yuya Sato


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Born
  
7 December 1980 (age 43) Hokkaido, Japan (
1980-12-07
)

Genre
  
Fiction, crime fiction, thriller, science fiction

Notable awards
  
Mephisto 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, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. His works have been translated into English, Chinese and Korean.

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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)

    • Film adaptations

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

    • References

    Yuya Sato (novelist) Wikipedia
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