Will Bob Dylan snub them? Nobel panel gives up knockin’ on Dylan’s door [View all]

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/17/nobel-prize-bob-dylan-unable-to-reach
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The Swedish Academy says it has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan, days after it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature.

“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,” the academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, told state radio SR on Monday.

So far the American troubadour has responded with silence since he won the prize on Thursday.
Pop lyrics aren't literature? Tell that to Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan

He gave a concert in Las Vegas that very night, but made no mention of the accolade.

In what may have been a veiled allusion to his long-term reputation for what some have called perversity, and others an admirably dogged persistence in forging his own path, Dylan’s set ended with a cover of Frank Sinatra’s Why Try to Change Me Now.