Patrick Lapeyre (French pronunciation:[patʁiklapɛʁ]) is a French writer, and winner of thePrix Femina, 2010, for his seventh novel,La vie est brève et le désir sans fin.^[1][2][3]

Lapeyre was born in 1949 inPantin. He attended theÉcole Normale Supérieure withAlain Finkielkraut andPascal Bruckner before studying literature at theSorbonne. After becoming a teacher, he published his first novel,Le corps inflammable, in 1984. He received thePrix du Livre Inter in 2004 forL'Homme-soeur^[2] and thePrix Femina in 2010 forLa vie est brève et le désir sans fin.

• Le corps inflammable (novel, 1984); J'ai lu, 1988,ISBN 2-277-22313-1
• La lenteur de l'avenir (novel, 1987); Editions Gallimard, 2008,ISBN 2-07-033852-5
• Ludo et compagnie (novel), P.O.L, 1991,ISBN 2-86744-209-5
• Welcome to Paris (novel), P.O.L., 1994,ISBN 2-86744-402-0
• Sissy, c'est moi (novel), P.O.L, 1998,ISBN 2-86744-592-2
• L'Homme-soeur (novel, 2004), P.O.L., 2005,ISBN 2-86744-986-3
• La vie est brève et le désir sans fin (novel), P.O.L., Paris 2010,ISBN 978-2-8180-0603-0
  • Life Is Short and Desire Endless, (translated byAdriana Hunter). Other Press, 2012,ISBN 9781590514856

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• Prix Femina winners
• Prix du Livre Inter winners
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