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Bob Dylan has agreed to accept the Nobel prize

Боб Дилан согласился принять Нобелевскую премиюWill we see Dylan at the awards ceremony in December is not clear yet.

American musician and poet Bob Dylan got in touch with the Swedish Academy and informed her that will the Nobel prize for literature, awarded to him in the middle of October.

“The news about the Nobel prize has rendered me speechless,’ he said in an interview with the permanent Secretary of the Academy Sara Danius. – I appreciate the honor”.

Will we see Dylan at the awards ceremony in December is not clear yet.

The musician became the winner of the Nobel prize for literature in mid-October. Shortly after the announcement of the awarding to him of the award, Dylan gave a concert in Las Vegas, but during his speech never mentioned the prize for literature.

Earlier, the Swedish Academy announced that I stopped trying to get in touch with Bob Dylan, to which academics are unable to get through.

Bob Dylan became the first recipient of the Nobel prize for literature, which was awarded for song lyrics. In its decision, the Swedish Academy said that the award was given to Dylan for “the creation of a new poetic language in the great American song tradition.”

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