is a Japanese novelist.

Biography

He was born in

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. He graduated from Sasebo North High School, and dropped out from

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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 written in 1983 for two years, and debuted as a writer. 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 The is a Japanese literary award established in 1988 in memory of author Shūgorō Yamamoto. It was created and continues to be sponsored by the Shinchosha Publishing company, which published Yamamoto's ''Complete Works''. The prize is awarded ann ...

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 The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for ...

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

* – Official homepage. Archived on 17 February 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Shogo Japanese novelists Naoki Prize winners People from Sasebo Writers from Nagasaki Prefecture 1955 births Living people