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" (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.
Anthologies.
Works by Shogo Sato are inside quotation marks ("")