Who is the only Author to refuse the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Jean-Paul Sartre :
- The 59-year-old author Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Which he was awarded in October 1964. He said he always refused official distinctions and did not want to be “institutionalised”.
- Sartre is the only person to refuse the Nobel Prize in literature and is known to have voluntarily declined the award.
- He was a French novelist, playwright, and exponent of Existentialism—a philosophy acclaiming the freedom of the individual human being.

Best Works:
- No Exit
- Nausea
- Saint Genet
- Actor and Martyr
- The Psychology of Imagination
- Being and Nothingness.

Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica and https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1964/sartre/documentary/