Kitab Khana - Jean-Paul Sartre explained his refusal to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in a statement made to the Swedish Press on 22 October 1964, which appeared in 'Le Monde'.
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October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize – The Marginalian
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Jean-Paul Sartre rejected Nobel prize in a letter to jury that arrived too late | Nobel prize in literature | The Guardian
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October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize – The Marginalian
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Lo Que Pasó en la Historia: October 22: The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but rejected it in 1964.
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