Jacqueline Harpman - Penguin Books New Zealand

JACQUELINE HARPMAN (1929–2012) was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Her family moved to Casablanca to avoid persecution when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature Harpman began training to be a doctor, but became unable to complete her medical studies after contracting tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954, and her first book was published in 1958. In 1980 Harpman qualified as a psychoanalyst and continued to practice throughout her life. She had given up writing after her fourth book was published in 1966, and resumed her career as a novelist only some twenty years later. Harpman wrote over 15 novels including I Who Have Never Known Men, and won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Orlanda.

Books by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

The ultimate feminist dystopian novel.

We Were Forbidden

Jacqueline Harpman

Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jacqueline Harpman, author of I Who Have Never Known Men, with this startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, about orders given and defied.

Orlanda

Jacqueline Harpman

A radical novel on androgyny and double selves, from the author of BookTok sensation I Who Have Never Known Men.