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#TIL that #OnThisDay in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature award. (stefanbohacek.online)
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#TIL that #OnThisDay in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature award.

"A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."

"He was the first Nobel laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and remains one of only two laureates to do so."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

#OTD #history #books #literature #bookstodon #NobelPrize

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[–] katrintheresa@cyberplace.social 1 points 9 months ago

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online wow