1960 Nobel Prize in Literature
Saint-John Perse
"for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
Date	1960 (announcement) 10 December 1960 (ceremony)
Location	Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Academy
First awarded	1901
Website	Official website
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The 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French poet Saint-John Perse "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time" ^[1]

Laureate

Sain-John Perse, pseudonym for Alexis Leger (1887-1975), was a French poet and diplomat. His poetry, admired especially by other poets, has been compared to that of Arthur Rimbaud. His best known early work is the long poem Anabase ("Anabasis", 1924). Later works include Exile (1942), Vents (1946; "Winds") and Amers (1957; "Seamarks").^[2]

Nominations

Saint-John Perse was nominated for the prize 15 times, including three nominations by the 1948 Nobel Prize laureate T. S. Eliot in 1955, 1958 and 1960.^[3] In total the Nobel committee received 70 nominations including nominations for Ivo Andric (awarded in 1961), John Steinbeck (awarded in 1962), Heinrich Böll (awarded in 1972), Robert Frost, André Malraux, Romulo Gallegos, Aldous Huxley, Louis Aragon, Alberto Moravia, Ignazio Silone, Ezra Pound, Julien Gracq, Aksel Sandemose, E. M. Forster, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Junichiro Tanizaki and Tarjei Vesaas.^[4]