In what year did Jean-Paul Sartre refuse the Nobel Prize in Literature?

July 27, 2020February 17, 2012 by Pamela Landy

Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.

He explained: “A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.”

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