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Eugene

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Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:03 PM Mar 2017

Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature

Source: BBC

Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature

29 March 2017 Europe

Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm this weekend, the academy has announced.

The American singer was awarded the prize in October but failed to travel to pick up the award, or deliver the lecture that is required to receive the 8m kroner ($900,000;£727,000) prize.

The academy said it would meet Dylan, 75, in private in the Swedish capital, where he is giving two concerts.

He will not lecture in person but is expected to send a taped version.

If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39429032
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Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2017 OP
To be honest, who cares? n/t monmouth4 Mar 2017 #1
Dylan is as much a part of history and the fabric of this nation as apple pie. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

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2. Dylan is as much a part of history and the fabric of this nation as apple pie.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:18 PM
Mar 2017

Almost by himself he changed the discussion in this country, almost.

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