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Saint-John Perse

1887 - 1975

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Alexis Leger (French: [ləʒe]; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse ([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 reflects the conditions of our time" Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saint-John Perse is the 427th most popular writer (up from 464th in 2019), the most popular biography from Guadeloupe and the most popular Guadeloupian Writer.

Saint-John Perse is most famous for his poem Anabase.

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Among writers, Saint-John Perse ranks 427 out of 7,302. Before him are Ennius, John Galsworthy, Propertius, Ian Fleming, Attar of Nishapur, and Isabelle de Charrière. After him are Jacques Prévert, William of Rubruck, Phillis Wheatley, Einhard, Ágota Kristóf, and Gertrude Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Saint-John Perse ranks 24. Before him are Leopold Ružička, Juan Gris, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Leonard Bloomfield, James B. Sumner, and Henry Moseley. After him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nadia Boulanger, Georg Trakl, Chūichi Nagumo, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Felix Yusupov. Among people deceased in 1975, Saint-John Perse ranks 19. Before him are Josephine Baker, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Edward Tatum, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arnold J. Toynbee, and George Paget Thomson. After him are Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, Paul Keres, Jimmy Hoffa, Eisaku Satō, and Antonín Novotný.

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In Guadeloupe

Among people born in Guadeloupe, Saint-John Perse ranks 1 out of 32. After him are Lilian Thuram (1972), Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745), Maryse Condé (1937), Marius Trésor (1950), Jacques François Dugommier (1738), Jocelyn Angloma (1965), Marie-José Pérec (1968), Firmine Richard (1947), Teddy Riner (1989), Christine Arron (1973), and Thomas Lemar (1995).

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Among WRITERS In Guadeloupe

Among writers born in Guadeloupe, Saint-John Perse ranks 1. After him are Maryse Condé (1937).

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