Who turned down Nobel Prize in Literature?

The people who actively rejected Nobel Prize in Literature were French Sartre and Pasternak of the former Soviet Union.

I. Pasternak

1958 10 year 10 on 23rd, the Swedish Academy Literature Award announced that Nobel Prize in Literature of that year would be awarded to Pasternak in recognition of his "great achievements in modern lyric poetry and Russian novel tradition". The writer gladly called it the Swedish Academy of Literature to express his "infinite gratitude, emotion, comfort and shame".

The news of winning the prize caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union, and his works were severely criticized. I was also expelled from the writers' association and threatened by various threats, so I was forced to reject Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the only writer in the history of the Nobel Prize who did not win honor because of winning the prize, but caused humiliation and disaster.

Second, Sartre.

Sartre is one of the most important French philosophers in the 20th century, the main representative of French atheism existentialism and one of the most active advocates of western socialism. He refused to accept any awards all his life, including 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. In all the struggles after the war, they stood on the side of justice, expressed sympathy for all kinds of people deprived of their rights and opposed the cold war. He is also an excellent writer, playwright, critic and social activist.