Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!”
In a 2013 weblog put up, the good Ursula Ok. Le Guin quotes a London Instances Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically professionalposes the “Jean-Paul Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal.” “Writers throughout Europe and America are fliping down awards within the hope of being nominated for a Sartre,” writes J.C., “The Sartre Prize…