Yuya Sato (novelist)

Yuya Sato (佐藤友哉) is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Award for Flicker Style, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. A few of his works have been published in the English edition of Faust. His works have been translated into Chinese and Korean.

Kenzaburo Oe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.

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.

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)