Nobel Prize - First to Refuse the Prize

Time: 1960s

Place: Stockholm, Sweden

Details: Two laureates have voluntarily declined the Nobel Prize. In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Literature Prize but refused, stating, "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honourable form.

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