Dylan did not say a word about his prize on the day it was announced, October 13, when he was performing in Las Vegas.
The writer of “Blowin’ In The Wind”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, and “Mr Tambourine Man” confined himself to his songs.
The Swedish Academy said it respected Dylan’s decision, but that it was “unusual” for a Nobel laureate not to come to Stockholm to accept the award in person.
Asked on October 28 by Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper if he would attend the Nobel prize winners’ banquet, Dylan said: “Absolutely. If it’s at all possible.”
Academy member Swedish writer Per Wastberg accused Dylan of being “impolite and arrogant”, and said it was “unprecedented” that the academy did not know if Dylan intended to pick up his award.
But the first songwriter to win the prestigious award in literature is expected to come to Stockholm early next year.
Nobel laureates are honoured every year on December 10 — the anniversary of the death of prize’s founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, inventor and philanthropist.
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