Who among the following declined the Nobel Prize for Literature stating that he did not want to be…
French existentialist philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, which he voluntarily declined, stating that he always refused…
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Who among the following declined the Nobel Prize for Literature stating that he did not want to be institutionalized?
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French existentialist philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, which he voluntarily declined, stating that he always refused official honours and that a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka were never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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