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The Third Lie (French: Le Troisième Mensonge) is a novel by Ágota Kristóf published on 30 August 1991 published by Éditions du Seuil and awarded the Prix du Livre Inter the following year. This is the third instalment of the "The Notebook Trilogy". The first instalment is the novel The Notebook, and the second is The Proof.

In his 1991 radio program Un livre, un jour, Olivier Barrot compared the story to "a tragedy like those of Antiquity" and analyzed this novel, with its "sparse, incredibly stark writing," as an "allegory of oppression." One of the two characters, Lucas, flees Hungary in 1956, just as Agota Kristof herself had done after the Hungarian Revolution.