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Saint-John Perse

1887 - 1975

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Alexis Leger (pronounced [ləʒe]; 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 reflects the conditions of our time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint-John Perse has received more than 220,072 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 78 in 2019). Saint-John Perse is the 410th most popular writer (up from 492nd 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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  • 220k

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  • 67.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 77

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saint-John Perse ranks 410 out of 5,755. Before him are Martial, Alvin Toffler, Tom Clancy, W. B. Yeats, Sholem Aleichem, and Gertrude Stein. After him are Thomas Bernhard, Meera, Lactantius, Alphonse de Lamartine, Julio Cortázar, and Tibullus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Saint-John Perse ranks 21. Before him are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, and Felix Yusupov. After him are Chūichi Nagumo, Henry Moseley, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ruth Benedict, and Georg Trakl. Among people deceased in 1975, Saint-John Perse ranks 17. Before him are Umm Kulthum, Arnold J. Toynbee, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. After him are George Paget Thomson, Josemaría Escrivá, Graham Hill, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Jimmy Hoffa, and Robert Robinson.

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In Guadeloupe

Among people born in Guadeloupe, Saint-John Perse ranks 1 out of 29. After him are Maryse Condé (1937), Marius Trésor (1950), Lilian Thuram (1972), Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745), Jacques François Dugommier (1738), Jocelyn Angloma (1965), Teddy Riner (1989), Marie-José Pérec (1968), Thomas Lemar (1995), Didier Dinart (1977), 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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