Shogo Sato | |
Native Name: | 佐藤 正午 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Name: | Kenryu Sato |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1955 |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Occupation: | Novelist |
is a Japanese novelist.
He was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki. He graduated from Sasebo North High School, and dropped out from Hokkaido University Department of Literature.[1] While studying at university, he was impressed after reading Isahaya Shōbu Nikki (1977) by the writer Kuninobu Noro, and started writing novels when he got a reply by writing a fan letter.[2] In 1979 he went back to Sasebo after leaving the university, won the Subaru Literary Award for his long-awaited novel written in 1983 for two years, and debuted as a writer.[3] He made his pen name because he said that he heard the sound of a siren from a fire department in Sasebo City ringing at noon in the age of amateurs and coming up with the custom of starting to write novels.
His other representative works include Revolver (1985), Kojin Kyōju (1988, Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize nominate), Kanojo ni tsuite Shiru koto no subete (1995), Y (1998), Jump (2000), Minoue Banashi (2009), etc., in which Y an Jump were bestsellers. In 2015, he won the Futaro Yamada Award for Hato no Gekitai-hō. In 2017, he later won the 157th Naoki Prize for Tsuki no Michi Kake.[4]
Bicycle racing has been his long-standing hobby,[5] and several works were on the subject of bicycle racing, such as Eien no 1/2, his short story Kimi wa Gokai shite iru, his column collection on bicycle racing side B, etc., were also published.
Dates | Title | Publishers | Notes | |
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Eien no 1.2 | ||||
Ōsama no Kekkon | His short novel "Aoi Kasa" was completed | |||
Revolver | ||||
Bico's | ||||
Koi o Kazoete | ||||
Dōtei Monogatari | ||||
Kojin Kyōju | ||||
Hōtō-ki | ||||
Kanojo ni Tsuite Shiru koto no Subete | ||||
Toriatsukai Chūi | ||||
Y | ||||
Jump | ||||
5 | ||||
Under Report | ||||
Feb 2009 | Osananajimi | |||
Minoue Banashi | ||||
Nov 2014 | Hato no Gekitai-hō | |||
Sep 2015 | Under Report/Blue | Shueisha Bunko | Complete edition with the short story "Blue" drawn at a later date | |
Apr 2017 | Tsuki no Michi Kake | Iwanami Shoten |
Dates | Title | Publishers | |
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Apr 1988 | Onna ni tsuite | Kodansha | |
Natsu no Jōfu | |||
Apr 1991 | (Renamed) Koi Urimasu | Kodansha Bunko | |
Ninjin Club | |||
Spain no Ame | |||
Burnishing Point | |||
Couples | |||
Kimi wa Gokai shite iru | |||
Apr 2001 | (Reverted) Onna ni tsuite | Kobunsha Bunko | |
Sep 2005 | Hana no yōna Hito | Iwanami Shoten | |
Dance Hall | |||
Sep 2011 | (Renamed) Koto no Shidai | Shogakukan Bunko |
Dates | Title | Publishers | Notes | |
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Jun 1989 | Watashi no Inu made Aishite hoshī | Shueisha Bunko | ||
Ari no susabi | ||||
Zō o Arau | ||||
side B | ||||
Buta o Nusumu | ||||
Jun 2006 | Shōsetsu no Yomikaki | Iwanami Shoten | ||
Nov 2009 | Shogo-ha | Shogakukan | ||
Jun 2015 | Kaku Interview (1, 2) | Shogakukan Bunko | Interview readings (listeners: Kotoko Ito, Yumi Higashine) | |
Feb 2016 | Shōsetsuka no Shiki | Iwanami Shoten |
Works by Shogo Sato are inside quotation marks ("")
Dates | Title | Works | Publishers | |
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Jul 1988 | Liaison–6-tsu no Koi no Monogatari | Shufunotomo | "Itokiriba" | |
Jū Nana-tsubu no Biyaku | "Furueru Onna" | |||
Tobaku-shi-tachi | "Kimi wa Gokai shite iru" | |||
Jul 2001 | Hito no Monogatari | Kadokawa Shoten | "Ai no Chikara o Uyamae" | |
Jan 2004 | Love Stories | Suiyō-sha | "Earring" | |
Mar 2005 | Himitsu.–Watashi to Watashi no aida no Jū Ni-wa | Da Vinci Books Bunko | "Niratama A", "Niratama B" | |
Otona no Kataomoi | "Magokoro" |
Date | Title | Distributor | Director | Lead actor |
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21 Nov 1987 | Eien no 1/2 | Saburō Tokitō | ||
22 Oct 1988 | Revolver | Cine Ropponica | Kenji Sawada | |
8 May 2004 | Jump | Cinequanon | Masao Takeshita | Taizo Harada |
19 May 2012 | Kanojo ni tsuite Shiru koto no subete | Ai Sasamine | ||
2022 | Tsuki no Michi Kake | Yo Oizumi[6] | ||