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...
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Perse Foundation, a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England Stephen Perse, the founder of The Perse School Saint-John Perse...
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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...
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witnessed the funeral were executed". In 1920, the French diplomat Saint-John Perse led an unrelated expedition through Mongolia with Chinese Post general...
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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...
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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...
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Lagerlöf, Le Clézio, and Perse List of recipients of the Grand Prize of the Académie française (France) – including de Saint-Exupéry, Cohen, Mauriac,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Caribbean literature (section Saint Martin)
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...
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recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ivo Andrić, Gabriela Mistral, Saint-John Perse, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, George Seferis, Czesław Miłosz...
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Pablo Neruda, 1971 Yasunari Kawabata, 1968 Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964 Saint-John Perse, 1960 Boris Pasternak, 1958 Andre Gide, 1947 Hermann Hesse, 1946 Frédéric...
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peninsula can be quite crowded during the high season.[citation needed] Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Leger), Nobel Prize–winning poet and diplomat...
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Guadeloupe has always had a rich literary output, with Guadeloupean author Saint-John Perse winning the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature. Other prominent writers...
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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...
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Forster, Alberto Moravia, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains, Ezra Pound, Saint-John Perse (awarded in 1960), Carlo Levi, Boris Pasternak (awarded in 1958) and...
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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...
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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...
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1947 – André Gide 1952 – François Mauriac 1957 – Albert Camus 1960 – Saint-John Perse 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) 1969 – Samuel Beckett...
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for 56 authors, including nominations for Saint-John Perse (awarded in 1960), Ivo Andric (awarded in 1961), John Steinbeck (awarded in 1962), Jean-Paul Sartre...
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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...
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artistic and literary world: Jean Paulhan, André Malraux, André Gide, Saint-John Perse, Paul Valéry and Jules Supervielle. Vivienne de Watteville lived there...
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William Shakespeare, Saint-John Perse, and John Steinbeck, as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs, particularly the Barsoom stories and John Carter of Mars books...
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Lawrence, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Maurice Ravel, Valery Larbaud, Saint-John Perse, Edith Wharton, James Huneker, anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski...
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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...
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Tokarczuk Handke Ernaux Fosse Lewis O'Neill Glück Buck Eliot Faulkner Hemingway Perse Steinbeck Asturias Bellow Paz Walcott Morrison Naipaul Munro Dylan Kipling...
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Pocrain Patrick Reason Jean Baptiste Labat Maryse Condé Daniel Maximin Saint-John Perse Simone Schwarz-Bart List of Guyanese British people Brindley Benn Forbes...
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Girard's work, starting with Girard's early articles on Malraux and Saint-John Perse, and ending with A Theatre of Envy. Lawtoo, Nidesh (2013). The Phantom...
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