Nobel Prize in Literature Committee abandons efforts to contact Bob Dylan

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On Monday, Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy, publicly announced during a radio program on Sveriges Radio in Sweden the committee, unable to reach Bob Dylan directly about winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, had abandoned its efforts to reach him.

File photo of Bob Dylan, 2012.
Image: Alberto Cabello from Vitoria Gasteiz (flickr).

Danius said, "Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough."^((sv))

Numerous news outlets reported Dylan remained silent about the prize at recent concerts in the United States, but several speculated the artist was offering a response by renditions of certain songs, such as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Why Try to Change Me Now."

Regardless of the singer/songwriter's reticence about the prize, Danius stated, "if he doesn't want to come, he won't come. It will be a big party in any case and the honour belongs to him."^((sv))

On Tuesday, BBC News reported the Nobel award was recognized in a post on Dylan's official Facebook page.

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Sources[edit]

• Charlotte Runcie. "What happens if Bob Dylan keeps ignoring his Nobel Prize?" — The Daily Telegraph (UK), October 18, 2016
• Randall Roberts. "What Nobel Prize? Bob Dylan has been silent on his historic honor" — Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2016
• "Bob Dylan: 'No word' from singer on Nobel Prize for Literature" — BBC News, October 18, 2016
• "Nobel panel gives up knockin’ on Dylan’s door" — The Guardian, October 17, 2016
• Harriet Alexander. "Nobel Prize committee gives up trying to contact Bob Dylan" — The Telegraph, October 17, 2016
• Ben Sisario and Alexandra Alter. "Bob Dylan, the Newest Nobel Laureate, Maintains His Reticence" — The New York Times, October 17, 2016
• "Akademien har slutat söka Dylan" — Sveriges Radio, October 17, 2016 (Swedish)

External links[edit]

• "The Nobel Committee for Literature" — Nobelprize.org, 2016
• "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 - Press Release" — Nobelprize.org, October 13, 2016
  

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