– 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...

Perse Foundation, a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England Stephen Perse, the founder of The Perse School Saint-John Perse...

witnessed the funeral were executed". In 1920, the French diplomat Saint-John Perse led an unrelated expedition through Mongolia with Chinese Post general...

The 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French poet Saint-John Perse (1887–1975) "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his...

Saint-John-Perse (classé MH) The musée Schœlcher (classé MH) The Pavillon L'Herminier (classé MH) The Mémorial ACTe The église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul...

by both André Gide and Roger Martin du Gard, and the 1960 laureate Saint-John Perse was nominated several times by the 1948 laureate T. S. Eliot. Although...

recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić, Gabriela Mistral, Saint-John Perse, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, George Seferis, Czesław Miłosz...

Amers [a.mɛʁ] is a collection of poetry by French writer Saint-John Perse, published in 1957. Perse won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years later. The...

Xenophon "Anabase [fr]", a 1924 poem by Saint-John Perse "Anabasis", a 1930 translation of Saint-John Perse's poem by T. S. Eliot "Anabasis", poem by...

Lagerlöf, Le Clézio, and Perse List of recipients of the Grand Prize of the Académie française (France) – including de Saint-Exupéry, Cohen, Mauriac,...

driver St John O'Neill (1741–1790), Irish MP for Randalstown Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger (1887–1975), French poet and diplomat St John Philby...

The Perse School is a private school (English fee-charging day and, in the case of the Perse, a former boarding school) in Cambridge, England. Founded...

Pablo Neruda, 1971 Yasunari Kawabata, 1968 Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964 Saint-John Perse, 1960 Boris Pasternak, 1958 Andre Gide, 1947 Hermann Hesse, 1946 Frédéric...

Forster, Alberto Moravia, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains, Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse (awarded in 1960), Carlo Levi, Boris Pasternak (awarded in 1958) and...

William Shakespeare, Saint-John Perse, and John Steinbeck, as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs, particularly the Barsoom stories and John Carter of Mars books...

Guadeloupe has always had a rich literary output, with Guadeloupean author Saint-John Perse winning the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature. Other prominent writers...

criticism. His dozen books of translation to Arabic include the poetry of Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy, and the first complete Arabic translation of Ovid's...

1947 – André Gide 1952 – François Mauriac 1957 – Albert Camus 1960 – Saint-John Perse 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) 1969 – Samuel Beckett...

Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, as was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger and...

Department of Foreign Affairs. He became friends with Alexis Leger (later Saint-John Perse, who would maintain a friendship of more than sixty years. When they...

Tokarczuk Handke Ernaux Fosse Lewis O'Neill Glück Buck Eliot Faulkner Hemingway Perse Steinbeck Asturias Bellow Paz Walcott Morrison Naipaul Munro Dylan Kipling...

Lawrence, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Maurice Ravel, Valery Larbaud, Saint-John Perse, Edith Wharton, James Huneker, anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski...

Originally issued in two volumes – subsequently in one volume. Winds by Saint-John Perse (1953) The Collected Works of Paul Valéry in English, 15 Volumes and...

Louis Barthou (1862–1934), politician, lived in Pau Saint-John Perse (1887–1975), real name Alexis Saint-Léger lived here from 1899 to 1906, where he was...

Georg Heym Jakob van Hoddis Max Jacob Srečko Kosovel Benjamin Péret Saint-John Perse Fernando Pessoa Jacques Prévert Pierre Reverdy Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur...

born in Trinidad and resident in the United Kingdom since 1950. (Saint-John Perse, who won the Nobel Prize in 1960, was born in the French territory...

would later be recognised for. Speaking on Cioran in general terms, Saint-John Perse described him as "the greatest French writer to honour our language...

Spring in 1913, Debussy expressed misgivings about the young composer. Saint-John Perse, who attended rehearsals of The Rite with Debussy, later told Stravinsky...

happy marriage; however, she probably had a secret relationship with Saint-John Perse, a French poet-diplomat who served as secretary to the French embassy...

Worlds Apart: Structural Parallels in the Poetry of Paul Valéry, Saint-John Perse, Benjamin Péret and René Char. The Hague: Mouton. ISBN 0-691-06305-2...