Awards & Winners

Saint-John Perse

Date of Birth 31-May-1887
Place of Birth Pointe-à-Pitre
(Guadeloupe)
Nationality France
Also know as Alexis Leger, Saint-Leger Leger, Saint­John Perse
Profession Diplomat, Poet
Saint-John Perse was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize for 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.

Awards by Saint-John Perse

Check all the awards nominated and won by Saint-John Perse.

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)