Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report.<\/p>\n
He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled concert in the city.<\/p>\n
No further details were given.<\/p>\n
Swedish Academy officials previously said Dylan would not deliver his Nobel lecture, a traditional condition of receiving the 8m krona ($900,000, \u00a3727,000) prize money, at the event.<\/p>\n
He is expected to deliver a taped version of the lecture later.<\/p>\n
If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money.<\/p>\n
A member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, told the Associated Press news agency “it went very well indeed”, and that 75-year-old Dylan was “a very nice, kind man”.<\/p>\n In an earlier blog post, the academy’s secretary said the setting would be “small and intimate”. No media were present at Dylan’s request.<\/p>\n After receiving the prize, Dylan performed a concert on Saturday evening at the Stockholm Waterfront venue. A second concert is planned for Sunday evening.<\/p>\n The Nobel Prize for literature has usually been associated with poets and novelists.<\/p>\n But the academy handed Dylan the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.<\/p>\n Dylan failed to attend the December ceremony, citing previous commitments. In a speech read on his behalf, he said it was “truly beyond words” and he thought his odds of winning were as likely “standing on the moon”.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled concert in the city. No further details were given. Swedish Academy officials previously said Dylan would not deliver his Nobel lecture, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[5793,5794],"yoast_head":"\n