Yuya Sato (novelist)

 is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Prize for "Flicker Style", and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for "1000 Novels and Backbeard". His works have been translated into English, Chinese and Korean.
Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.
Works in English translation.
This is a stand-alone short story and is also the first chapter of his Novel "Gray-Colored Diet Coke". The title was named after Kenji Nakagami's "Gray-Colored Coke".
Bibliography.
Standalone novels.
Some of these books are not novels but collections of linked short stories.