Who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Only two people have declined a Nobel Prize in Literature. Boris Pasternak did so in 1958 and Jean-Paul Sartre, who declined all official honors, turned it down in 1964.

Russian-born Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, but under pressure from the government of the Soviet Union declined the prize. Later, however, his descendants accepted it in his name in 1988.

In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he declined it, stating that "It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize laureate. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form."

However the Nobel committee does not acknowledge refusals, and includes Pasternak and Sartre in its list of Nobel laureates.