![]() ![]() ![]() Ros Schwartz has translated numerous works of fiction and non-fiction from French, including several Georges Simenon titles for Penguin Classics, a new translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and, most recently, Mireille Gansel’s Translation as Transhumance. 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. Harpman wrote over 15 novels and won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Orlanda. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her training due to contracting tuberculosis. Her family fled to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and only returned home after the war. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1929. ![]()
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