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Sartre Awarded Nobel Prize, but Rejects It; Existentialist Thinks His Writings Would. Be Compromised; $53,000 Will Revert to Fund, Swedish Academy Says - The New York Times
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), philosophe existentialiste français pipe, en 1964, l'année où il a reçu le Prix Nobel de littérature, mais ont décliné l'honneur Photo Stock - Alamy
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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