Bob Dylan Breaks His Silence On Nobel Prize Win
After more than two weeks of silence, Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel Prize for literature. The notoriously cagey songwriter recently sat down for an interview with Telegraph, and when asked if he would show up to the Nobel ceremony on December 10th, he said “absolutely” but in true Dylan style added, “if it’s at all possible.” Besides a short-lived post made on his website, this was the first public acknowledgement of the prize after the Swedish Academy awarded it to him on October 13th “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan also contacted the Nobel Foundation this week to officially claim his prize, after weeks of dodging their phone calls. “The news about the prize left me speechless,” he told Secretary of the Swedish academy, Sara Danius, “I appreciate the honor so much.” His interview with Telegraph’s Edna Gundersen, ostensibly to promote his exhibition of paintings that opens next week in London, marked his first in nearly two years. When asked why he’s been avoiding addressing his Nobel win, Dylan playfully responded, “Well I’m right here.” For an artist whose had a famously tense relationship with the press for over half a century this may be as good as it gets. Although he alluded to potentially going to the ceremony held in his honor nothing has been set in stone. In a statement issued on Friday the Nobel Foundation said, “It has not yet been decided if Bob Dylan will attend any events during the Nobel Week in Stockholm in December.” While one member of the Swedish academy that grants the Nobel has called Dylan’s silence “impolite and arrogant,” one can only assume that Mr. Dylan isn’t overly concerned. He wouldn’t be the Bob Dylan that’s being awarded if he was.
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