Bob Dylan is not in a hurry. You award the Nobel Prize for Literature to Johnny X of a fictitious country in Africa South of the Sahara and you can bet that by now he would have granted thousands of interviews and would have been pontificating on local radio, on the BBC and on CNN, with maybe even a disastrous word or two about the latest president elect of the US.
The latest news is that Bob Dylan could be coming to Sweden in the spring
"Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" (Mr. Tambourine Man)
Is he? Isn't he?
Will he? Won't he?
The dance around Bob Dylan coming or not coming, continues.
Sara Danius (the Swedish Academy's permanent Secretary and an erudite Dylan fan) assures us : "Bob Dylan is coming to Stockholm in the spring" (If only someone could be as definitive about the Messiah.)
And his Nobel lecture? A sermon? " It can be free form", says Sara Danius, which means that he may give a lecture, or perform perhaps a new song or even dance – he "may like to dance ".
He can do whatever he likes.
On Thursday, 17 November 2016 18:08:40 UTC+1, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
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 10th 2016 (thus disappointing some of his religious people). The Award giving ceremony falls on the Vayetze Sabbath of December 10th 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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