- Philippe Panneton
Philippe Panneton (pseudonym Ringuet, which was his mother's maiden name) (
April 30 ,1895 –December 29 ,1960 ) was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer.Born in Trois-Rivières,
Quebec , he received a degree in medicine fromUniversité Laval in 1920. In 1935 he became a professor at theUniversité de Montréal . In 1944 he was a founding member of L’Académie canadienne-française and served as its president from 1947 until 1953. In 1956, he was named ambassador toPortugal , and died inLisbon in 1960.In 1959 he was awarded the
Lorne Pierce Medal .elected works
* "Trente arpents / Thirty Acres" (1938), winner of the 1940 Governor General's Award for fiction
* "Un Monde était leur empire / Their Empire Was a World" (1943)
* "L'Héritage et autres contes / The Legacy and Other Stories" (1946)
* "Fausse Monnaie / Counterfeit" (1947)
* "Le Poids du Jour / The Burden of the Day" (1949)External links
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006068 Philippe Panneton's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
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