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 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 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 Dates Title Publishers Notes Eien no 1.2 Ōsama no Kekkon His short novel "Aoi Kasa" was completed Revolver Bico's Koi o Kazoete Dōtei Monogatari Kojin Kyōju Hōtō-ki Kanojo ni Tsuite Shiru koto no Subete Toriatsukai Chūi Y Jump 5 Under Report Feb 2009 Osananajimi Iwanami Shoten Minoue Banashi Nov 2014 Hato no Gekitai-hō Shogakukan Sep 2015 Under Report/Blue Shueisha Bunko Complete edition with the short story "Blue" drawn at a later date Apr 2017 Tsuki no Michi Kake Iwanami Shoten 2025 Ripe Persimmon Kadokawa
Short stories Dates Title Publishers Apr 1988 Onna ni tsuite Kodansha Natsu no Jōfu Apr 1991 (Renamed) Koi Urimasu Kodansha Bunko Ninjin Club Spain no Ame Burnishing Point Couples Kimi wa Gokai shite iru Apr 2001 (Reverted) Onna ni tsuite Kobunsha Bunko Sep 2005 Hana no yōna Hito Iwanami Shoten Dance Hall Sep 2011 (Renamed) Koto no Shidai Shogakukan Bunko
Essays, others Dates Title Publishers Notes Jun 1989 Watashi no Inu made Aishite hoshī Shueisha Bunko Ari no susabi Zō o Arau side B Buta o Nusumu Jun 2006 Shōsetsu no Yomikaki Iwanami Shoten Nov 2009 Shogo-ha Shogakukan Jun 2015 Kaku Interview (1, 2) Shogakukan Bunko Interview readings (listeners: Kotoko Ito, Yumi Higashine) Feb 2016 Shōsetsuka no Shiki Iwanami Shoten
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 2022 Tsuki no Michi Kake Shochiku Ryūichi Hiroki Yo Oizumi
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
References
External links – Official homepage. Archived on 17 February 2014.