Jacqueline Harpman

Jacqueline Harpman was a Belgian author born in 1929.

Her family fled to Casablanca during Nazi occupation, returning after the war.

She initially pursued medicine but turned to writing after contracting tuberculosis.

Harpman published her first work in 1958 but took a 20-year hiatus from writing.

She later became a psychoanalyst.

Resuming her literary career, she wrote twelve novels and won several prizes, including the Médicis for "I Who Have Never Known Men." Harpman was married to an architect and had two children.

Her diverse life experiences likely influenced her unique literary perspective.