Why did Jean-Paul Sartre win the Nobel Prize?

The 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre “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.”

Who turned down the Nobel Prize?

Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre
JAKARTA – On October 22, 1964, the Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. But he refused. He became the first person to refuse the Nobel Prize.

Why did Boris Pasternak win the Nobel Prize?

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 was awarded to Boris Leonidovich Pasternak “for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.”

How did Boris Pasternak change his poetry over time?

He continued to change his poetry, simplifying his style and language through the years, as expressed in his next book, Early Trains (1943). Pasternak’s post-Zhivago poetry probes the universal questions of love, immortality, and reconciliation with God. Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959.

When did Boris Pasternak write his last book?

Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were later to accept it in his name in 1988.

Did Boris Pasternak have any children?

He later returned to Moscow, became an author, and in 1936 moved into his dacha in Peredelkino, southwest of Moscow. When it was announced that Boris Pasternak had been awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize, he was forced to decline it at the behest of Soviet authorities, who had banned his novel Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak was married with two sons.