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JACQUELINE HARPMAN (1929-2012) was a Belgian author of over fifteen novels. Born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, she fled to Casablanca with her family during the Second World War. She studied French literature and trained to become a doctor but was unable to continue her medical studies after contracting tuberculosis. Harpman began writing in 1954, and wrote over fifteen novels, winning numerous prizes, including the Prix Médicis (Orlanda), the Prix Victor-Rossel (Brève Arcadie), among others. I Who Have Never Known Men, originally published in French in 1995, was the first of her books to be translated into English. 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. The recipient of a number of awards, she was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009 and received the Institute of Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence in 2017. CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
""A small miracle . . . I Who Have Never Known Men is about as heavyhearted as fiction can get.""--The New York Times ""Mesmerizing . . . The book's austere mystery--the atrophied and gelid world it depicts--provides a richly allusive consideration of human life.""--Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books ""A consistently gripping experience.""―Times Literary Supplement ""Like Kafka with a dash of Ursula Le Guin, this story is part mystery, part science fiction, and all literature.""--Booklist ""Immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.""--Kirkus Reviews ""[A] riveting narrative . . . Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking.""--Library Journal ""Unlike other science fiction or fantasy novels, this is a universe without an invented order: there is no known infrastructure, no reveal, no men hiding behind a curtain. It is the simplicity of the writing that makes my skin crawl, so eerie in its absences.""--Haley Mlotek, Frieze ""[An] eerily evocative novel . . . this intriguingly dark thought experiment told by a compellingly alien voice--dispassionate and unfussy--is strangely fascinating.""--Lucy Scholes, The Times
