• Source: Shogo Sato

      • Shogo Sato (佐藤 正午, Satō Shōgo, born Kanetaka Sato (佐藤 謙隆, Satō Kanetaka), 25 August 1955) 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 (1977) 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 (永遠の1/2, Eien no Nibun no Ichi) written in 1983 for two years, and debuted as a writer. He made his pen name "Shogo" (正午, Shōgo, "Noon") 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.
      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.


      Bibliography




      = Novels

      =


      Featured




      Short stories




      = Essays, others

      =


      = Anthologies

      =
      Works by Shogo Sato are inside quotation marks ("")


      Imaging works


      Films

      TV dramas


      References




      External links


      Shogo Sato Home – Official homepage. Archived on 17 February 2014. (in Japanese)

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: