At last: Dylan to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm

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At last: Dylan to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm

 

Bob Dylan performs during a segment honoring Director Martin Scorsese, recipient of the Music + Film Award, at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

 

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Literature Prize diploma and medal in the next few days in Stockholm, where is he due to perform this weekend, the secretary of the Swedish Academy said on Wednesday.

 

The Academy's decision to give the bard of "Blowin' in the Wind" the literature prize caused controversy, only deepened by Dylan's silence about the award for weeks afterwards and his no-show at the annual banquet in December.

 

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius said in a blog post. "The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."

 

The 75-year-old Dylan is due to give concerts in Stockholm on April 1 and the following day and then another in the southern Swedish city of Lund on April 9.

 

Danius said that the notoriously media-shy Dylan would not hold the traditional Nobel lecture at this point.

 

"The Swedish Academy is very much looking forward to the weekend and will show up at one of the performances. Please note that no Nobel Lecture will be held," Danius wrote.

 

"The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point," she added.

 

In order to receive 8 million Swedish crown ($903,000) prize, Dylan needs to give a lecture within six months from Dec. 10. It does not necessarily need not be delivered in Stockholm.

 

The decision to award the prize to Dylan, whom the Academy said had "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," was seen by some as slap in the face to mainstream writers of poetry and prose.

 

But the Academy has a tradition of stepping outside the traditional boundaries of literary form, awarding the 1953 prize to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in part for his "brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".

 

($1 = 8.8561 Swedish crowns)

 

(Reporting by Simon Johnson; Editing by Niklas Pollard)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-30

[ballpoint]

The times they have a-changed

[snooky]

They should give this s--t a pass and take away the prize.  How pompous can one be to not show up for one of the most prestigious awards in the world?

 

I remember in the 60's when they had billboards in the US with his likeness on them with big letters that said  "GET A HAIRCUT" which I assumed was directed at the kids of those days who were starting to get the shaggy dog look.

[ddavidovsky]

I don't there should be any 'conditions' on accepting an award. Still, I don't know what he's been playing at. He should have accepted it or declined it straight away - both can be done with grace - instead of all the fannying about.

[IAMHERE]

Stockholm in winter time? I'd wait till June too.

[hdkane]

5 hours ago, snooky said:

They should give this s--t a pass and take away the prize.  How pompous can one be to not show up for one of the most prestigious awards in the world?

 

I remember in the 60's when they had billboards in the US with his likeness on them with big letters that said  "GET A HAIRCUT" which I assumed was directed at the kids of those days who were starting to get the shaggy dog look.

The award lost its prestige some time ago, when they gave it to Gore for his global warming scheme, and to Obama for literally nothing...as for the money, Dylan easily makes more than 1 million a month these days, playing private events...I don't think it's unreasonable that he didn't want to take time off to travel to get the award...

[sanukjim]

13 hours ago, hdkane said:

The award lost its prestige some time ago, when they gave it to Gore for his global warming scheme, and to Obama for literally nothing...as for the money, Dylan easily makes more than 1 million a month these days, playing private events...I don't think it's unreasonable that he didn't want to take time off to travel to get the award...

So who is next,Jane Fonda ,or Anjem Choudary the British terrorist ?

[kannot]

oh dear...............how sad is the world we  live in

[toofarnorth]

Don't criticize what you can't understand .  At 75 Mr D. you do things your way , if I get to 75 I will be able to say 'Regrets I've had a few but then again...................oops , gone from Bob to Frank Sinatra mode.

[Jingthing]

 

 All's well that ends well.

 

Bob Dylan was REQUIRED to deliver a Nobel lecture within six months.

He did.

It's been very well received.

So there!

You can listen to it yourself if you want. 

 

https://www.jambase.com/article/listen-bob-dylan-deliver-nobel-prize-lecture

[pegman]

On March 30, 2017 at 7:46 AM, IAMHERE said:

Stockholm in winter time? I'd wait till June too.

He grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota. I think he could handle Sweden.