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

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. In 1944 he was a founding member of L'Académie canadienne-française (now known as the

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) and served as its president from 1947 until 1953. In 1956, he was named ambassador to Portugal, and died in

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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(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 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 Novelists from Quebec {{Quebec-writer-stub