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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960

"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse
(pen-name of Alexis Léger)
France
b. 1887
(on Guadeloupe Island)
d. 1975
 
 
 
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