Saint-John Perse
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 49 years ago |
Date of birth | May 31,1887 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Pointe-a-Pitre |
Guadeloupe | |
Date of died | September 20,1975 |
Died | Hyeres |
France | |
Record labels | EPM |
Albums | Poetes & chansons - saint-john perse |
Job | Poet |
Diplomat | |
Education | University of Bordeaux |
Full name | Alexis Leger |
Nationality | French |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature |
Books | Anabase |
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Parents | Édouard Pierre Amédée Leger |
Marie Pauline Françoise Renée Dormoy | |
Alma mater | University of Bordeaux |
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ID | 1728335 |
Saint-John Perse Life story
Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse, was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in 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.