Shogo Sato (佐藤 正午, Satō Shōgo, born Kanetaka Sato[1] (佐藤 謙隆, Satō Kanetaka), 25 August 1955[1]) is a Japanese novelist.
[1] He graduated from Sasebo North High School, and dropped out from Hokkaido University Department of Literature.
[3] 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.
[4][1] 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.
[1] 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.