The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 was awarded to Jean-Paul Sartre "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age."
Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize.

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