Yann Queffélec

{{short description|French writer}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Yann Queffélec

| image = Yann Queféllec 2013 a.jpg

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| caption = Yann Queféllec (2013)

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|09|04|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris

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| nationality = French

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| notable_works = Les Noces barbares (1984)

| occupation = Author

| known_for = Winner of Prix Goncourt

| spouse =

| partner = Brigitte Engerer

| children =

| relatives = Anne Queffélec

| awards = Prix Goncourt in 1985

}}

Yann Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in Paris){{Cite web|url=http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/yann-queffelec-4254.php |publisher=Evene.fr |title= J'ai tout pour plaire et tout pour déplaire |date=4 September 1949 }} is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English as The Wedding or The Savage Wedding.{{Cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/471282511.html?dids=471282511:471282511&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+09%2C+1989&author=Paul+Stuewe&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Always+willing+to+take+on+the+powers+that+be&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604061450/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/471282511.html?dids=471282511:471282511&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+09,+1989&author=Paul+Stuewe&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Always+willing+to+take+on+the+powers+that+be&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |title=Always willing to take on the powers that be |date=9 December 1989 |publisher=Toronto Star |first=Paul |last=Stuewe }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/05/books/revisionists-and-storytellers-is-it-passe-to-be-enage.html?&pagewanted=3 |first=Richard |last=Bernstein |date=1 May 1985 |title=Is it passé to be enagé? |work=New York Times }} He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engerer{{Cite news|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/07/31/03005-20080731ARTFIG00287-yann-queffelec-une-gueule-d-ecrivain-.php |publisher=Le Figaro |language=French |date=31 July 2008 |title=Yann Queffélec: une gueule d'écrivain |first=Jean-Claud |last=Lamy}} and the brother of musician Anne Queffélec.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nantes.maville.com/actu/follejournee07_detail_-Yann-Queffelec-Bart%C3%B3k-est-un-peu-Breton-_10004-373493_actu.Htm |publisher=Nantes: Maville |date=3 February 2007 |title=Yann Queffélec "Bartók est un peu Breton" }} Their father was the writer Henri Queffélec.