Bob Dylan, the recipient of the 2016 Nobel prize for Literature, has been surprisingly quite as the Swedish Academy attempt to contact Dylan, but in vain.
Sara Danius, the academy’s permanent secretary told state broadcaster SR: “Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, it's certainly enough.” Every year on December 10th the winners are invited to Stockholm to receive their awards from King Carl XVI Gustaf and to address the banquet. The Swedish Academy in unaware if Dylan will attend or not.
75-year-old Dylan is the first songwriter to win the literature prize. This year’s contenders included author Salman Rushdie, Syrian poet Adonis and writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o from Kenya.
