Saint-John Perse

Saint-John Perse is a 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature winning French Poet. The name is a pen name, his birth name was Alexis Saint-Léger Léger. He used it to keep his literary to keep his literary activities private. According to Nobel Prize website he won the award for "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time".