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
Trois-Rivières
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,
Quebec
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, he received a degree in medicine from
Université Laval
Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montm ...
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
Lorne Pierce Medal The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. The medal was first aw ...
.
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
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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 ''
Tamarack Review
The ''Tamarack Review'' was a Canadian literary magazine, published from 1956 to 1982. Established and edited by Robert Weaver, other figures associated with the magazine's editorial staff included Anne Wilkinson, William Toye and John Robert C ...
'' (1960)
* ''Fausse Monnaie / Counterfeit'' (1947)
* ''Le Poids du Jour / The Burden of the Day'' (1949)
References
External links
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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
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