The Nobel Prize winner, Bob Dylan had a concert in Las Vegas on the same day that the award was announced, but did not mention it at all reports The Guardian. The Swedish Academy doesn't have any information yet if Dylan has plans to attend the ceremony on Dec. 10 this year.
Nobel Prize is a set of international awards in different categories such as the recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The prizes were established in 1895 by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
Bob Dylan's website mentioned his Nobel Prize, but it was removed later. Written on his website that appeared on the page for "The Lyrics: 1961 - 2012" was "winner of the Nobel prize in literature". Per Wastberg, a Swedish writer and academy member said, "It's impolite and arrogant" in an interview with SVT public television. He also added that it is an "unprecedented" situation and said, "He is who he is".
The Swedish Academy will hold its annual awarding of the Nobel Prize winners in Stockholm, Sweden on Dec. 10, 2016 in a formal dinner for the said event. However, "the ceremony marking Dylan's career will go ahead as planned," Mr. Wastberg added. Wastberg also told Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper in an interview that they are aware that he [Bob Dylan] can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage.
A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Anders Barany, said that the award for Nobel Prize in Physics for Albert Einstein in 1921 also went unacknowledged. Another awardee, French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, also rejected the Nobel Prize in 1964. Doris Lessing was also unimpressed of the Nobel Prize that she was awarded in 2007. Yet, she still attended the banquet later that year.
Robert Allen Zimmerman or better known as Bob Dylan was born in May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota and is an American singer-songwriter, author and an artist. He has been an influential musician, and has sold more than 100 million records.
