MR. TAMBOURINE TO BE MISSING IN ACTION

QQQQQA NO-SHOW DYLAN HAS COMPANY

QSeveral other prize winners have skipped the Nobel ceremony in the past British novelist, poet and playwright Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She skipped it because she was too old English playwright Harold Pinter got the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005). But was hospitalised Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, but had social phobia

Bob Dylan won’t be at the Nobel prize ceremony this week to accept his award

But he has sent along a speech to be read aloud

Academy member Swedish writer Per Wastberg accused him of being impolite and arrogant

Sending along the speech does not exempt him from holding a lecture at a place and a type of his choosing

Dylan had said in a letter in November that he would not attend the ceremony because he had ‘pre-existing commitments’ BOB DYLAN, WHOSE LYRICS HAVE INFLUENCED GENERATIONS OF FANS, HAS HAD A SUBDUED RESPONSE REMAINING SILENT FOR WEEKS FOLLOWING THE NEWS IN OCTOBER HE HAD WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

QQQThis year’s Laureate in Literature, Bob Dylan, will not be participating in the Nobel Week, but he has provided a speech which will be read at the banquet — Nobel Foundation