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. Laypeyre was born in 1949 in Pantin. He attended the École Normale Supérieure with Alain Finkelkraut and Pascal Bruckner before studying literature at the Sorbonne. After becoming a teacher he published his first novel Le corps inflammable in 1984.