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Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm this weekend, the academy has announced.

The American singer was awarded the prize in October but failed to travel to pick up the award, or deliver the lecture that is required to receive the 8m kroner ($900,000;£727,000) prize.

The academy said it would meet Dylan, 75, in private in the Swedish capital, where he is giving two concerts.

He will not lecture in person but is expected to send a taped version.

If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money.

A blog entry from Prof Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said: "The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend.

"The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes."

Prof Darius said taped lectures had been sent by other winners in the past, including Alice Munro in 2013.

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Earlier this week, Prof Darius said the academy had had no phone conversations with Dylan and that he had until 10 June to perform the lecture in order to receive the money.

"What he decides to do is his own business," she had said.

In October, Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the prestigious award, and the first American since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993.

He received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", the award citation said.

It took him more than two weeks to make any public comment, finally saying the honour had left him "speechless".

He then snubbed the Nobel ceremony in December because of "pre-existing commitments".

But in a speech read out on his behalf, he said he had thought his odds of winning were as likely as him "standing on the moon".

He said it was "truly beyond words" to receive the prize.</s>STOCKHOLM: Music legend Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Prize diploma and medal in Stockholm in the next few days where is he due to give a concert this weekend, the secretary of the Nobel Academy said in a blog on Wednesday.

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius said in a blog post.

"The Academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."</s>Bob Dylan, the first songwriter to win the prestigious prize, will not hold the traditional Nobel lecture during the meeting

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Music icon Bob Dylan is to receive his Nobel Literature Prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it was announced on Wednesday, March 29.

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature," Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy, wrote in a blog post.

"The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes," she added.

Dylan is set to perform two concerts in Stockholm, on Saturday and Sunday.

Danius didn't specify if the meeting would be held before or after the concerts.

But Dylan, the first songwriter to win the prestigious prize, will not hold the traditional Nobel lecture during the meeting, she said.

The lecture is the only requirement to receive the eight million kronor (839,000 euros, $870,000) that comes with the prize.

"Please note that no Nobel Lecture will be held. The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point," Danius said.

The rock enigma snubbed the Nobel ceremony in December because of "pre-existing commitments". Nobel laureates usually hold their lectures in Stockholm in the days prior to the ceremony. – Rappler.com</s>Bob Dylan will finally receive his Nobel Literature Prize this weekend in Sweden after he ruffled feathers by not accepting the award in person from the Academy late last year.

At the time, the Swedish Academy said that the singer-songwriter informed them "he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments make it unfortunately impossible." They also acknowledged that it "respects" the musician's decision, calling the move "unusual, but not exceptional."

Dylan, who is set to play two gigs in Stockholm over the weekend ahead of coming to Dublin in May, was awarded the literature prize in October 2016, with the panel citing his work with "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". He became the first American recipient of the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993.

A blog entry from Prof Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, has confirmed that the 75-year-old artist will accept the award this weekend.

"The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes."

In 2008, Dylan won the Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to music and American culture.

His recent status as a Nobel winner came as a surprise in a field dominated by more literary figures, such as recent winners Doris Lessing and Alice Munro and Irish winners WB Yeats, who won in 1923, George Bernard Shaw (1925), Samuel Beckett (1969), and Seamus Heaney, who won in 1995.</s>Music icon Bob Dylan will accept his Noble Literature Prize in a closed-door ceremony in Stockholm this weekend.

The singer was awarded the prize in October but failed to travel to pick up the award, or deliver the lecture that is required to receive the 8m kroner ($910,000) prize.

The academy said it would meet Dylan in private in the Swedish capital, where he is set to perform two concerns, on Saturday and Sunday.

He will not lecture in person but is expected to send a taped version 'at some point'.

If he does not deliver a lecture by June 10, he would have to forfeit the prize money.

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy, wrote in a blog post: 'The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature.

'The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes.'

She added: 'Please note that no Nobel Lecture will be held. The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point.'

The rock enigma snubbed the Nobel ceremony in December because of 'pre-existing commitments'.

Nobel laureates usually hold their lectures in Stockholm in the days prior to the ceremony.</s>Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will receive his Nobel Literature Prize diploma and medal in the next few days in Stockholm, where is he due to perform this weekend, the secretary of the Swedish Academy says.

The academy's decision to give the bard of Blowin' in the Wind the literature prize caused controversy, only deepened by Dylan's silence about the award for weeks afterwards and his no-show at the annual banquet in December.

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius said in a blog post.

"The academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."

The 75-year-old Dylan is due to perform concerts in Stockholm on April 1 and the following day and then another in the southern Swedish city of Lund on April 9.

Ms Danius said that the notoriously media-shy Dylan would not hold the traditional Nobel lecture at this point.

"The academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point," she added.

In order to receive the 8 million Swedish crown ($1.2 million) prize, Dylan needs to give a lecture within six months from December 10. It does not necessarily need not be delivered in Stockholm.

The decision to award the prize to Dylan, whom the academy said had "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", was seen by some as a slap in the face to mainstream writers of poetry and prose.

But the Academy has a tradition of stepping outside the traditional boundaries of literary form, awarding the 1953 prize to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in part for his "brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".</s>HELSINKI (AP/WCCO) — The Swedish Academy says Nobel literature winner Bob Dylan will receive his diploma and medal in Stockholm this weekend.

Dylan declined to attend ceremonies last December “due to pre-existing commitments.”

Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and was characteristically mum about the honor, only mentioning it briefly, but with gratitude.

The folk legend was the first songwriter to win the Nobel prize for literature. The academy says it picked him for his “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”</s>Bob Dylan Agrees To Accept His Nobel Prize During A Tour Stop In Stockholm

Bob Dylan will be accepting his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend, according to the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. In a blog post Tuesday, Sara Danius announced the "good news" that members of the academy will be meeting with Dylan when he makes a tour stop in Stockholm.

"The Swedish Academy is very much looking forward to the weekend and will show up at one of the performances" Dylan is delivering on Saturday and Sunday, Danius writes. "The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."

She adds: "The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes."

In a previous post, Danius was careful to note that the tour date in Stockholm had been planned well before Dylan won the prize, which he was awarded in October "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the Swedish Academy's citation.

"He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition, and he is a wonderful sampler — a very original sampler," Danius said at the time, explaining the decision to award a musician a prize that for more than a century has principally been doled out to novelists, poets and essayists.

Yet the unusual decision was just the first installment of what came to be an unusual saga — as Dylan first waited more than two weeks to acknowledge the award, then begged off attending the December ceremony where it was to be doled out. Dylan sent a personal letter to the academy saying he could not make it to Stockholm then due to "pre-existing commitments."

Instead, Patti Smith spelled Dylan for a moving rendition of his classic, "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."

It remains unclear whether this weekend's meeting portends warmer embrace of the prize from Dylan, who has yet to fulfill his one requirement to receive the roughly $900,000 that comes with it: delivery of the Nobel lecture, a traditional talk on a topic of the laureate's choosing.

That requirement, set by the rules of the Nobel Foundation, must be satisfied by June 10 for Dylan to pick up the prize money.

"Please note that no Nobel Lecture will be held. The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point," Danius says in her post, noting that if he sends a taped lecture, he will not be the first.

Alice Munro, the 2013 laureate, had to send a taped lecture because of health woes, as we reported then.

Dylan did, however, write an acceptance speech for the December ceremony that was delivered by the U.S. ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji.

"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel prize," Dylan wrote, "I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon."</s>STOCKHOLM-Music icon Bob Dylan will finally receive his Nobel Literature Prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it announced Wednesday.

But no media will be allowed to cover the meeting, and the famously-reclusive Dylan will only give a lecture required of him in a taped version at a later date.

The 75-year-old kept silent for weeks after he was announced as the Nobel literature laureate in October, and snubbed a ceremony in December to receive the prize.

"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy, wrote in a blog post. "The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature."

She added: "The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes." Dylan is set to perform concerts on Saturday and Sunday in Stockholm, the first stop on his European tour. Danius didn't specify if the meeting would be held before or after the concerts.

But Dylan, the first songwriter to win the prestigious prize, will not hold the traditional Nobel lecture during the meeting, she said.

Because the lecture is the only requirement to receive the eight million kronor (839,000 euros, $870,000) that comes with the prize, Dylan will not be handed the money during his Stockholm visit, even though he will collect the Nobel diploma and medal.

The lecture can take nearly any form, including a short speech, a performance, a video broadcast or even a song, but must be held within six months of December 10, the date of the Nobel prize ceremony and the anniversary of the death of its founder Alfred Nobel.

"The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point," Danius said, without specifying an exact date. Previous Nobel literature laureates have presented taped lectures, including the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013. Dylan, the songwriter of "Blowin' In The wind", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Hurricane", has until June 10 to send his lecture. When Dylan was asked in October why he did not respond to the Academy's calls, he told the Daily Telegraph: "Well, I'm right here."

The rock enigma later snubbed the Nobel ceremony in December because of "pre-existing commitments" which he never explained. But he sent a thank-you speech that was read aloud during the ceremony in Stockholm.

Maria Schottenius, a literary critic and columnist at Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, said she believes Dylan does care about the Nobel.

But she said the glitziness of the ceremony, attended by Swedish royal family and politicians, was bothersome for the media-shy and anti-establishment rock star.

"(A) prize from the king's hand, tailcoat, the world's finest party with a long lavish televised dinner... not his cup of tea," she told AFP.

In a humble speech read in December, Dylan apologised for not being able to attend the ceremony and expressed surprise over being chosen as a laureate in the league of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus. "Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, 'Are my songs literature?'" his speech read.

"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon," it added.

Several other literature prize winners have skipped the Nobel ceremony in the past for various reasons.

Doris Lessing (2007) did not attend because of her advanced age, Harold Pinter (2005) because he was hospitalised and Elfriede Jelinek (2004) due to her social phobia.

Each of these winners performed their lectures that were either delivered to Stockholm or read aloud abroad.</s>After months of confusion and conflict, singer Bob Dylan will finally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dylan, 75, was awarded the prestigious honour in October, but was unable to travel to Stockholm in December for the ceremony “due to pre-existing commitments.”

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The Academy’s personal secretary Prof Sara Danius wrote in a blog post: “The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature.” The iconic singer-songwriter and academy will meet in Stockholm where Dylan is performing two concerts.

Danius described the ceremony as a very private affair. “The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan’s wishes.”

Dylan will not deliver his Nobel lecture while he is in Sweden, however. The Academy expects him to send a taped version of his lecture by June 10; Dylan will forfeit his US$900,000 prize money if he fails to do so.

Some members of the Academy felt disrespected after the Forever Young singer did not publicly acknowledge his Nobel Prize win for more than a week after it was announced. One unnamed member of the Academy described Dylan’s non-response as “impolite and arrogant.”

On Saturday, December 10 iconic punk rock singer Patti Smith was sent to perform in Dylan’s place. Part-way through her performance of Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Smith forgot the words and halted the performance. “I’m sorry, I’m so nervous,” she explained to a supportive crowd.

That same evening, Swedish academy member Horace Engdahl gave a speech honouring Dylan in the latter’s stead.
The Swedish Academy announces that American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has agreed to accept his Nobel Prize in Literature this weekend at a private location in Stockholm.