Shogo Sato
Shogo Sato is a Japanese novelist.
Biography
He was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki. He graduated from Sasebo North High School, and dropped out from Hokkaido University Department of Literature. While studying at university, he was impressed after reading Isahaya Shōbu Nikki by the writer Kuninobu Noro, and started writing novels when he got a reply by writing a fan letter. In 1979 he went back to Sasebo after leaving the university, won the Subaru Literary Award for his long-awaited novel Eien no 1/2 written in 1983 for two years, and debuted as a writer. He made his pen name "Shogo" 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, Kojin Kyōju, Kanojo ni tsuite Shiru koto no subete, Y, Jump, Minoue Banashi, 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.
Bicycle racing has been his long-standing hobby, 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.
Novels
Featured
Short stories
Essays, others
Anthologies
Works by Shogo Sato are inside quotation marks| Dates | Title | Works | Publishers |
| 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" |
Imaging works
; Films| Date | Title | Distributor | Director | Lead actor |
| 21 Nov 1987 | Eien no 1/2 | Toho | Kichitaro Negishi | Saburō Tokitō |
| 22 Oct 1988 | Revolver | Cine Ropponica | Toshia Fujita | Kenji Sawada |
| 8 May 2004 | Jump | Cinequanon | Masao Takeshita | Taizo Harada |
| 19 May 2012 | Kanojo ni tsuite Shiru koto no subete | King Record | Kishu Izuchi | Ai Sasamine |
; TV dramas
| Dates | Title | Network | Series | Lead actor | Original work |
| 8 Jan - 12 Mar 2013 | Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi | NHK | Yoru Dora | Erika Toda | Minoue Banashi |