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Which island was Saint-John Perse originally from?

  • Corsica

  • Guadeloupe

  • Martinique

  • Guadeloupe

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Guadeloupe is the birthplace of Saint-John Perse, the renowned French poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960. Born Alexis Léger in 1887, Perse spent his formative years on this Caribbean island, which deeply influenced his literary imagination and themes of exile, identity, and the search for spiritual transcendence.
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