Bob Dylan SHUNNING Nobel Literature Prize? Committee gives up trying to contact star
THE NOBEL Prize committee have given up trying to contact Bob Dylan after he won the Literature award. Is the star shunning the academy?
Rolling Stones pay tribute to Nobel laureate Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan hasn't acknowledged his Nobel Prize win
The 75-year-old was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature last Thursday, but is yet to ackowledge the win.
Dylan performed in Las Vegas that evening and didn’t mention the win before playing in Coachella at the Desert Trip festival on Friday.
The Rolling Stones’ Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards praised him for the win at the festival, but still the musician made no reference.
Jagger said: “I want to thank Bob Dylan for an amazing set. We have never shared the stage with a Nobel Prize winner before. Bob is like our own Walt Whitman.”
Dylan won for contribution to poetic expression in American music
Richards added: “I can’t think of anybody that deserved it better.”
Sara Danius, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prizes, said they’ve tried everything to contact Dylan.
She said: “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.”
Dylan hasn't been a stranger to ignoring big award ceremonies over the years.
In 2000 he won the Oscar for Best Original Song, with Things Have Changed in the film Wonder Boys. Yet he didn’t attend the ceremony in LA and instead accepted the award via video link from Australia.
To make matters worse, in 2010 he was invited to the White House by President Obama to collect the National Medal for the Arts, but didn’t show up.
Dylan has a history of not taking awards seriously
Dylan was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, has had a successful career spanning decades.
His hit songs like The Times They are A-Changin’ and Blowin’ in the Wind are some of his best known work from the 1960s period and continue to inspire to this day.
At time of writing Dylan has still made no statement or public comment on win the Nobel Prize.