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.
His current literary style is of "Strange Fiction" which features fantastic or horrific concepts treated in a refined literary style. Kenzaburo Oe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.
- Born
- 7 Dec 1980
- Country
- Japan
- First book
- Dendera, 2009
