Saint-John Perse ( – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." Anabasis, the Classical Greek word for a journey up country. Anabase selected poems, Saint-John Perse Saint-John Perse ( – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." Saint-John Perse was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.
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