In the Heisei era,women writers intensively won the Akutagawa Awards and renewed several records. They continuously added fresh blood to the Japanese literary arena and influenced the trend and status of Japanese literature. This article focused on this reality and based on comprehensively describing the maturation process from women writers to writers. We figured out that women writers’ intense winning resulted from their coinciding with the social ideological changes,literary response within the improvement of political status,and following the Akutagawa Award standards. Meanwhile,their intense winning also reflects Akutagawa Award’s affirmation on the works’ freshness and positive energy,which is a response and recognition to some needs of the current society captured by the writers.
Keywords: | Heisei EraAkutagawa AwardFemale Writer |