Dylan love letters sell for $1 billion at auction

An archive of more than 40 letters a lovesick teenage Bob Dylan wrote to a high school girlfriend in the late 1950s sold this week for nearly US$670 million (NZ$1 billion), an auction house said. Livraria Lello, a renowned bookshop in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, said it had acquired the more than 150-page haul from Dylan’s youth in Hibbing, Minnesota. ‘‘Guess who won the auction of 42 Bob Dylan’s love letters? That’s right, we did!!’’ the bookstore said on Facebook. The store said that it planned to make the entire archive available for scholars and fans.