Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nobel Laureate in Literature (1964)

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Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and literary critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 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, but he declined the prize.