Saint-John Perse Writer

Saint-John Perse (French: [pɛʁs]; also Saint-Leger Leger; pseudonyms of Alexis Leger) (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.

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Saint-John Perse
PseudonymSaint-John Perse
Birth dateMay 31, 1887
Birth nameAlexis Leger
Birth place
Guadeloupe , Pointe-à-Pitre
Date of deathSeptember 20, 1975
Place of death
Provence , Giens peninsula , Presq'ile-de-Giens

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