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

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^[2] and the Prix Femina in 2010 for La 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 by Adriana Hunter). Other Press, 2012, ISBN 9781590514856