Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse, was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time".
- Occupation
- poet, translator, diplomat, writer
- Position held
- Secretary General of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- May 31, 1887
- Died
- September 20, 1975
