Philippe Panneton (or Joseph-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

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, he received a degree in medicine from

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in 1920. In 1935 he became a professor at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

. 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

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Selected works

* '' Trente arpents'' (Paris, 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 ** ''Dreißig Morgen Land. Ein kanadischer Roman.'' Transl. Franziska Maria Tenberg. Benziger, Einsiedeln

940 Year 940 ( CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * The tribe of the Polans begins the construction of the following fortified settlements (Gi ...

(German) *** Extraction: ''Gott die Schuldigkeit erweisen,'' in: ''Gute Wanderschaft, mein Bruder.'' Transl. Carl Scharfenberger. St. Benno, Leipzig 1986 (German) * ''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 ''

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'' (1960) * ''Fausse Monnaie / Counterfeit'' (1947) * ''Le Poids du Jour / The Burden of the Day'' (1949)

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* 1895 births 1960 deaths Writers from Quebec Canadian male novelists People from Trois-Rivières Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Université Laval alumni 20th-century Canadian novelists Canadian novelists in French 20th-century Canadian male writers Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Canadian expatriates in Portugal {{Quebec-writer-stub