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Why did Jean-Paul Sartre decline the Nobel Prize for Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre
11 days ago | beth

Why did Jean-Paul Sartre decline the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize for Literature because he believed that a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution. He had consistently declined other official honors and saw his work as an expression of his personal freedom.