Philippe Panneton (pseudonym Ringuet, which was his mother's maiden name) was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer. His novel Thirty Acres won the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1940. In 1959 he was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal. 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.