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Two people have turned down a Nobel Prize
Two laureates have declined a Nobel Prize: Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 and Le Duc Tho in 1973.
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Sartre refused the Literature Prize because he declined all official honours. Le Duc Tho, awarded the Peace Prize with Henry Kissinger, cited the situation in Vietnam.
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