We Were Forbidden Jessi Jezewska Stevens A new volume collects three never-before-translated novellas by Jacqueline Harpman, author of I Who Have Never Known Men. We Were Forbidden, by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz, Transit Books, 90 pages, $18.95 • • • When the Belgian-born author Jacqueline Harpman died in 2012, her slim, bleak novel I Who Have Never Known Men, first published in 1995, had fallen into obscurity.