Harpman, Jacqueline
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1929-2012) Belgian psychoanalyst and author, moderately prolific since the 1950. Of sf interest are Moi Qui N'ai Pas Connu Les Hommes (1995; trans Ros Schwartz as I Who Have Never Known Men 1997), depicts a Post-Holocaust Dystopia where women are kept in Underground cages; and Orlanda (1996; trans Ros Schwartz 1999), which plays with some sophistication on Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography (1928). [JC]
Jacqueline Harpman
born Brussels, Belgium: 5 July 1929
died Brussels, Belgium: 24 May 2012
works (translated titles only)
- Moi Qui N'ai Pas Connu Les Hommes (Paris: Stock, 1995) [hb/]
- I Who Have Never Known Men (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997) [trans by Ros Schwartz of the above: hb/Holly Moore]
- Orlanda (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1996) [hb/]
- Orlanda (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999) [trans by Ros Schwartz of the above: hb/]
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