In fact, it is not yet known if the singer will attend the ceremony.
When the Nobel committee announced that the Prize for Literature went to the celebrated singer-songwriter Alan Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan, by "create new poetic expressions within the great tradition of american song" and experience a variety of ways with all kinds of genres –such as painting, writing, acting, and the hyphen–, the controversy was served. Many were outraged that this so-called troubadour modern received an accolade reserved to the writers, as in the time were outraged that the singer took to the stage with an electric guitar instead of an acoustic, "betraying" the folk. So, over the last week all were discussions about whether it deserved it or not so prominent award. However, Dylan still has not ruled on the matter and does not seem to have much interest in doing so.
The ceremony of the Nobel peace prize has a date the 10th of December in Stockholm and consists of a banquet as well as the delivery of the medal of the Nobel peace prize, the diploma of the Laureate, a document signed by king Carlos Gustav XVI confirming prize and a substantial cash prize, which this year amounts to 8 million Swedish crowns or $ 933,000 $ . According to the permanent secretary of the institution, Sara Danius, in an interview for a public radio station in Swedish, the musician has not yet answered any call, e-mail or contact attempt on the part of the committee for four days. In addition, a few hours after knowing the result, Dylan performed a concert in Las Vegas without making any comment on that.
Even so, Danius was optimistic, and stated: “I have a feeling that Bob Dylan might be coming. It may be that I’m wrong and it would be sad not to do it, but the distinction is yours and we cannot be responsible for what happens now". "If you don’t want to come, not come, will be a great feast like,” he said in the same interview.
If Dylan would not accept the prize would be the third of this category in doing so. The first was Boris Pasternak in 1958, forced by the soviet authorities, even if we were to accept later, and Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 because he refused any distinction. It remains to be seen if the prolific but mysterious artist, will appear in Stockholm on the day of the ceremony, thus solving the mystery.
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