Bob Dylan’s website finally acknowledges he is winner of Nobel Prize for Literature 

Five days after Nobel Prize committee revealed Bob Dylan’s failure to acknowledge its honour handed to him, the musicians website in a subtle update on a page promoting a new book of his lyrics now includes the declaration “winner of the Nobel prize in literature”.

Before comments of the subject were broken, some put his silence down to shyness, others called him aloof and a few said it was just plain bad manners.

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Sara Danius, the Nobel academy’s permanent secretary, said on Monday that numerous attempts had been made to contact Dylan, including emails and calls to those closest to him, but had heard nothing back from the man himself.

Danius said she was “not at all worried” that Dylan would fail to appear at the ceremony in Stockholm on 10 November, where the Nobel winners are celebrated and where the singer will be invited to give a lecture.

“I think he will show up,” she said. “If he doesn’t want to come, he won’t come. It will be a big party in any case and the honour belongs to him.”

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