Thirty Acres

Ringuet, the pseudonym of Philippe Panneton, was a French-Canadian novelist, physician, professor, and diplomat born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1895. He is best known for his novel Trente arpents (Thirty Acres, 1938), a classic of Canadian literature that won the Governor General's Award and offers an unsentimental portrayal of rural versus urban life. Panneton practiced medicine in Montreal, taught at the Université de Montréal, co-founded the Académie canadienne-française, and served as Canada's ambassador to Portugal from 1956 until his death in 1960.