Yuya Sato(佐藤友哉Satō Yūya, born 1980) is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Award for Flicker Style, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. A few of his works have been published in the English edition of Faust. His works have been translated into Chinese and Korean. Kenzaburo Oe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.