Jacqueline Harpman (5 July 1929 – 24 May 2012)[1] was a Belgian writer who wrote in French.

Jacqueline Harpman was born on 5 July 1929, in Etterbeek, Belgium, to Jeanne Honorez and Andries Harpman, exporters of Belgian fabrics and lace to North African colonies.

She was the second daughter born to the couple after her sister Andrée, nine years her senior.

Her father being a Dutch-born Jew, Harpman's family fled to Casablanca, Morocco when the Nazis invaded during World War II and they did not return to Belgium until the war had ended in 1945.

She died on 24 May 2012, in Brussels, Belgium, after having been severely ill for a long time.