USA Africa Dialogue Series - Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel Prize giving ceremony.

Holy hell! Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel Prize giving ceremony. Which means that he will not be rubbing noses with some of the high and mighty at the Nobel Banquet or dancing cheek to cheek with some "socialite , with a long string of pearls" either. Or attending the Sabbath service of December 10^th 2016 (thus disappointing some of his religious people). The Award giving ceremony falls on the Vayetze Sabbath of December 10^th 2016 ( Alfred Nobel's birthday) - the Sabbath ends at 15.52 on that day and the ceremony of course will take place later in the evening.

I remember that in 2005 it was on Yom Kippur (the holiest but not the saddest day in the Jewish calendar) that it was announced that Harold Pinter had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. During the break I went past the library at Solna and espied that Pinter had bagged it. Pinter did not attend the prize-giving ceremony either. I hope that it's not lashon hara, but Pinter also got married on Yom Kippur, not a day for getting married….

Dylan had previously said that he would not be granting any newspaper interviews ( thus disappointing many of the hungry journalists). However, he is obliged to give a Nobel Lecture, if not in Stockholm then somewhere else. He might even decide to do it by Skype… ( you never know) but we can expect some words of truth from him...

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