Jacqueline Harpman
Jacqueline Harpman (born July 5, 1929 in Etterbeek ; † May 24, 2012 ) was a Belgian French-language writer and psychoanalyst .
Life
Harpman is the daughter of Andries Harpman, a Jewish-Dutch businessman, and Jeanne Honorez. In 1940 the family fled to Casablanca. Harpman attended the Collège Mers Sultan de Casablanca there because as a Jew she was not allowed to go to the Lycée français. Back in Brussels, she finished high school and began studying medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles , but had to interrupt her studies in 1950 due to her tuberculosis disease. She spent 21 months in the Eupen sanatorium. In 1953 she married the Flemish filmmaker Émile Degelin . In 1958 she finished her first novel "L'apparition des esprits", which was published two years later. In the same year she met the publisher René Julliard , who also published her first text, "L'amour et l'acacia". In 1959 she received the Prix Rossel for "Brève Arcadie". Then she devoted herself entirely to writing. In 1963 she married Pierre Puttemans, an architect and poet, and had two daughters with him, Marianne and Toinon. After Julliards' death in 1962, the publishing house was taken over by the "Presses de la Cité" in 1965. Disappointed with the failure of her novel "Les bons sauvages", she stopped writing and graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles with a degree in psychology. She worked as a psychotherapist at the Fond'Roy Clinic for several years, settled down and became interested in psychodrama and psychoanalysis. In 1976 she joined the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society (Société belge de psychanalyse, SBP), did a training analysis and wrote articles for the "Revue belge de psychanalyse". In 1989 she met Blandine de Caunes from the publishing house Stock and published several novels, which won several prizes and are also translated into other languages. After "Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes" she switched from Stock to Grasset. She worked as a writer and psychoanalyst until her death on May 24, 2012.
Awards
1959 Prix Rossel for "Brève Arcadie" 1992 Prix Point de Mire for "La plage d'Ostende" 1996 Prix Médicis for "Orlanda" 2003 Prix triennal du roman de la Communauté française de Belgique for "La Dormition des amants" 2006 Grand Prix de Littérature de la Société des Gens de Lettres for her life's work
Publications
- L'amour et l'acacia ( short stories) - 1958
- Brève Arcadie - 1959 ( Prix Rossel ); German farewell to Arcadia , trans. by Helga Treichl, Hamburg 1961
- L'apparition des esprits - 1960
- Les bons sauvages - 1966
- La mémoire trouble - 1987
- La fille démantelée - 1990
- La plage d'Ostende - 1991
- La lucarne - 1992
- Le bonheur in le crime - 1993
- Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes - 1995; dt. The woman who did not know the men , trans. by Brigitte Große, Hamburg 1998
- Orlanda - 1996 ( Prix Médicis ); dt. Orlanda , trans. by Brigitte Große, Hamburg 2000
- L'orage rompu - 1998
- Dieu et moi - 1999
- Récit de la dernière année - 2000
- Le véritable amour - 2000
- La vieille dame et moi - 2001
- En quarantaine - 2001
- Ève et autres nouvelles - 2001
- La dormition des amants - 2002 ( Prix triennal du roman de la Communauté française de Belgique ); dt. The last sleep of lovers , trans. by Ingeborg Schmutte, Berlin 2003
- Le temps est un rêve - 2002
- Le placard à balais - 2003
- L'apparition des esprits suivi de Le véritable amour - 2003
- Jusqu'au dernier jour de mes jours - 2004
- Le passage des éphémères - 2004
- La forêt d'Ardenne - 2004
- Souvenirs d'Ostende - 2004
- Eve et autres nouvelles - 2005
- En toute impunité - 2005
- Je me souviens de Bruxelles - 2006 (together with others)
- You côté d'Ostende - 2006
- Mes Oedipe - 2006
- Ce que Dominique n'a pas su - 2007
- Écriture et psychanalysis - 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacqueline Harpman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jacqueline Harpman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ lalibre.be "Jacqueline Harpman est décédée" (French), accessed on February 4, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harpman, Jacqueline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian French-language writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Etterbeek |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 2012 |