Yuya Sato (novelist)
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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
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
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- Short story collection
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Standalone novels
Some of these books are not novels but collections of linked short stories.
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- 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"
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Short story collection
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Film adaptations
- Dendera (2011) directed by Daisuke Tengan, the son of Shohei Imamura
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)
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External links
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- 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 Japanese male writers