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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint-John Perse has received more than 237,637 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Saint-John Perse is the 464th most popular writer (down from 409th 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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Notable Works

Anabase
1924
Oeuvre poétique
Exile in literature
1953
Amers
1957
Chronique
1960
Saint-John Perse
1953
Exil
1942

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saint-John Perse ranks 464 out of 7,302. Before him are Vasily Grossman, Lesya Ukrainka, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, and Marguerite de Navarre. After him are John Galsworthy, Eyvind Johnson, Margaret Atwood, Traudl Junge, Jules Michelet, and Athenaeus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Saint-John Perse ranks 20. Before him are Bernard Montgomery, Wilhelm Canaris, Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, Chūichi Nagumo, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. After him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, James B. Sumner, Felix Yusupov, Georg Trakl, Henry Moseley, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Among people deceased in 1975, Saint-John Perse ranks 16. Before him are Haile Selassie, Josephine Baker, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Robert Robinson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, 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), Firmine Richard (1947), Marie-José Pérec (1968), Thomas Lemar (1995), Teddy Riner (1989), and Christine Arron (1973).

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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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