62 Years Ago Today, Jean-Paul Sartre Snubbed The World's Most Exclusive Club

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ON 22 October 1964, the Nobel Institute announced that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, citing his work as "rich in ideas and imbued with the spirit of freedom".

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On October 22, 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he did not accept the award. The Swedish Academy awarded him for a work that "with its wealth of ideas and the spirit of freedom and the search for truth has had a wide influence on the modern era". The decision came at a time when Sartre was already among the most influential French writers and philosophers. Born on June 21, 1905 in Paris, th…