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Jean-Paul Sartre was the first person to decline the Nobel Prize.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/17/sartre-on-the-nobel-prize/

This attitude is based on my conception of the writer’s enterprise. A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own—that is, the written word. All the honors he may receive expose his readers to a pressure I do not consider desirable. If I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre it is not the same thing as if I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner.

Thanks to Sartre, I know my profession: I specialize in nothingness, i.e. seeing what's not there, yet.