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Mind the Gender Gap: Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Feminism and Literature in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

David McNeill ,
Kawakami Mieko  and
Murata Sayaka
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Compelling women's fiction in Japan hardly began with its two brightest contemporary stars, Kawakami Mieko and Murata Sayaka. Tawada Yoko won the Akutagawa Prize back in 1993 and her work is widely read outside Japan (Tawada has long lived in Germany and writes in German and Japanese). Ogawa Yoko won in 1990 for her novel Pregnancy Diary (Ninshin karendaa, 妊娠 カレンダー). In 2004 the Akutagawa went to two young women, Wataya Risa (19) and Kanehara Hitomi (20). There have been English translations of fiction by Japanese women for decades.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 21 , November 2020 , e1
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