Editing Nobel Prize (section)

== Refusals and constraints ==
[[File:Richard Kuhn ETH-Bib Dia 248-065.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A black and white portrait of a man in a suit and tie. Half of his face is in a shadow.|[[Richard Kuhn]], who was forced to decline his [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]]]
Two laureates have voluntarily declined the Nobel Prize. In 1964, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] was awarded the Literature Prize, but refused, stating, "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honourable form."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holt |first=Jim |date=22 September 2003 |title=Exit, Pursued by a Lobster |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2088648/ |journal=Slate |access-date=21 January 2010 |archive-date=31 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531173058/http://www.slate.com/id/2088648 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Lê Đức Thọ]], chosen for the 1973 Peace Prize for his role in the [[Paris Peace Accords]], declined, stating that there was no actual peace in Vietnam.<ref name="autogenerated4">{{Cite news |last=English |first=Jason |date=6 October 2009 |title=Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners |work=[[CNN]] |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/06/mf.nobel.odd.facts/index.html |access-date=21 January 2010 |archive-date=6 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106195732/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/10/06/mf.nobel.odd.facts/index.html? |url-status=live }}</ref> [[George Bernard Shaw]] attempted to decline the prize money while accepting the 1925 Literature Prize; eventually it was agreed to use it to found the [[Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |last=Weintraub |first=Stanley |title=Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950), playwright and polemicist |date=3 October 2013 |id=36047 }}</ref>

During the Third Reich, [[Adolf Hitler]] hindered [[Richard Kuhn]], [[Adolf Butenandt]], and [[Gerhard Domagk]] from accepting their prizes. All of them were awarded their diplomas and gold medals after World War II.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US |archive-date=21 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521151149/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bishop |first=J. Michael |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/450899218 |title=How to win the Nobel Prize : an unexpected life in science |date=2003 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02097-9 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |oclc=450899218}}</ref>

In 1958, [[Boris Pasternak]] declined his prize for literature due to fear of what the Soviet Union government might do if he travelled to Stockholm to accept his prize. In return, the Swedish Academy refused his refusal, saying "this refusal, of course, in no way alters the validity of the award."<ref name="autogenerated4" /> The academy announced with regret that the presentation of the Literature Prize could not take place that year, holding it back until 1989 when Pasternak's son accepted the prize on his behalf.<ref name="timesonline-292690">{{cite news |last=Franchetti |first=Mark |title=How the CIA won Zhivago a Nobel |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1292690.ece |work=[[The Times]] |date=14 January 2007 |access-date=21 January 2010 |location=London |archive-date=5 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805073045/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1292690.ece |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="washingtonpost">{{cite news |last=Finn |first=Peter |title=The Plot Thickens |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601758.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=27 January 2007 |access-date=21 January 2010 |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108090317/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601758.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Aung San Suu Kyi]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, but her children accepted the prize because she had been placed under house arrest in [[Myanmar|Burma]]; Suu Kyi delivered her speech two decades later, in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aung San Suu Kyi – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi.html |website=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=28 July 2012 |archive-date=25 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925122550/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Liu Xiaobo]] was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 while he and his wife were under house arrest in China as political prisoners, and he was unable to accept the prize in his lifetime.