Who was the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
A
Jea-Paul Sartre
B
Rabindranath Tagore
C
Leo Tolstoy
D
T. S. Eliot
Correct Answer: Jea-Paul Sartre
Jean - Paul Sartre’s letter informing the Swedish Academy that he would decline the Nobel prize, were it to be offered to him, arrived after the jury had already decided upon the French existentialist as their winner, newly opened archives confirm. Sartre was named as the Nobel laureate for literature in 1964, praised by the academy “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”.