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Alexis Leger (pronounced; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (French: [sɛ̃ d͜ʒɔn pɛʁs]; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Saint-John Perse (born May 31, 1887, Saint-Léger-les-Feuilles, Guadeloupe—died Sept. 20, 1975, Presqu’île-de-Giens, France) was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 “for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry.”
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Biographical. Saint-John Perse, born in 1887, pseudonym for Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, came from an old Bourguignon family which settled in the French Antilles in the seventeenth century and returned to France at the end of the nineteenth century. Perse studied law at Bordeaux and, after private studies in political science, went into the ...
1960 Nobel Laureate in Literature. for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time. Saint-John Perse, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Collected Poems Saint-John Perse. The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay...
Sep 23, 1975 · St.‐John Perse, the romantic poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960, died Saturday at his villa in Giens, on the French Riviera. A diplomat in public life as Alexis Saint‐Leger...
A critical analysis of the epic poem Amers by the French poet Saint-John Perse, also known as Alexis Leger. The article explores the themes of the sea, the world, and the human condition in his work.
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