Patrick Lapeyre
Patrick Lapeyre is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2010, for his seventh novel, La vie est brève et le désir sans fin. Lapeyre was born in 1949 in Pantin. He attended the École Normale Supérieure with Alain Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner before studying literature at the Sorbonne. After becoming a teacher, he published his first novel, Le corps inflammable, in 1984. He received the Prix du Livre Inter in 2004 for L'Homme-soeur and the Prix Femina in 2010 for La vie est brève et le désir sans fin. Bibliography
Le corps inflammable (novel, 1984); J'ai lu, 1988, 
La lenteur de l'avenir (novel, 1987); Editions Gallimard, 2008, 
Ludo et compagnie (novel), P.O.L, 1991, 
Welcome to Paris (novel), P.O.L., 1994, 
Sissy, c'est moi (novel), P.O.L, 1998, 
L'Homme-soeur (novel, 2004), P.O.L., 2005, 
La vie est brève et le désir sans fin (novel), P.O.L., Paris 2010,  
Life Is Short and Desire Endless, (translated by Adriana Hunter). Other Press, 2012,

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1949 births
Living people
20th-century French novelists
21st-century French novelists
Prix Femina winners
Prix du Livre Inter winners
French male novelists
20th-century French male writers
21st-century French male writers