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October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize. https://t.co/ii1Pxm57cs | Nobel prize, Literature, Jean paul sartre
On this day in 1964 — 57 years ago — Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature...he declined the award - Frank Beacham's Journal
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Sartre Awarded Nobel Prize, but Rejects It; Existentialist Thinks His Writings Would. Be Compromised; $53,000 Will Revert to Fund, Swedish Academy Says - The New York Times
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