Jacqueline Harpman

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family fled to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and only returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her training due to contracting tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. Harpman wrote over 15 novels and won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Orlanda. I Who Have Never Known Men was her first novel to be translated into English, and was originally published with the title The Mistress of Silence

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.