Saint-John Perse (pseudonym of Alexis Léger, also Alexis Saint-Legér Léger was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." Wikipedia
...Saint-John Perse Banquet Speech Saint-John Perse's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 (Translation) I have accepted in ... www.angelfire.com/ego2/olko/binary/perse-speech-e.html
Perse studied law at Bordeaux and, after private studies in political science, went into the diplomatic service in 1914. nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1960/per...
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