Yuya Sato

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. Sato's short story "Same As Always" was translated for The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, and has been described as "an acerbic meditation on the complex interplay of gender and nurturing in post-Fukushima Japan."

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 "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)