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Philippe Panneton

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Pen name
  
Ringuet

Education
  
Laval University

Role
  
Writer


Name
  
Philippe Panneton

Notable works
  
Thirty Acres

Books
  
Thirty Acres

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Born
  
April 30, 1895 Trois-Rivieres, Quebec (
1895-04-30
)

Died
  
December 28, 1960, Lisbon, Portugal

Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Philippe Panneton (pseudonym Ringuet, which was his mother's maiden name) (April 30, 1895 – December 28, 1960) was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer.

Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, he received a degree in medicine from Université Laval in 1920. In 1935 he became a professor at the Université de Montréal. In 1944 he was a founding member of L’Académie canadienne-française (now known as the Académie des lettres du Québec) and served as its president from 1947 until 1953. In 1956, he was named ambassador to Portugal, and died in Lisbon in 1960.

In 1959 he was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal.

Selected works

  • Trente arpents / Thirty Acres (1938), winner of the 1940 Governor General's Award for fiction
  • Thirty Acres, Oxford University Press, New Canadian Library (1940)—Afterword by Antoine Sirois, translated by Felix and Dorothea Walter
  • Un Monde était leur empire / Their Empire Was a World (1943)
  • L'Héritage et autres contes / The Legacy and Other Stories (1946)
  • "The Heritage", translated by Morna Scott Stoddart, in Robert Weaver, Canadian Short stories, Oxford University Press, p. 82—First published in the Tamarack Review (1960)
  • Fausse Monnaie / Counterfeit (1947)
  • Le Poids du Jour / The Burden of the Day (1949)

    • References

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