{"id":49308,"date":"2016-10-30T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49308"},"modified":"2016-10-30T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:07:59","slug":"bob-dylan-who-was-speechless-at-being-awarded-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-saysi-appreciate-the-honour-very-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49308","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan who was “Speechless” at Being Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature says”I appreciate the Honour very much”."},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy that awards it said Friday, breaking his silence on the win that he said left him “speechless”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked “if I accept the prize? Of course”, the US singer-songwriter said in a call to the academy this week, around a fortnight after he was named laureate on October 13.<\/p>\n

“The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless,” he told the academy\u2019s permanent secretary, Sara Danius. “I appreciate the honour so much.”<\/p>\n

Dylan had not responded torepeated phone calls made by the academy following the prize announcement, nor had he made any public statement, prompting one academy member to call him “impolite and arrogant”.<\/p>\n

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The academy said Friday that it had not yet been decided yet if Dylan would visit Stockholm to pick up his award.<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s King Carl XVI Gustaf usually hands out prizes and cheques to all the Nobel winners at a banquet on December 10.<\/p>\n

Asked in an interview with Britain\u2019s Daily Telegraph newspaper published late Friday if he would turn up, he said: “Absolutely. If it\u2019s at all possible.”<\/p>\n

Dylan told the paper that the award was “amazing, incredible”, saying: “It\u2019s hard to believe.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Whoever dreams about something like that?”<\/p>\n

Asked why he did not respond to the academy\u2019s calls, Dylan said: “Well, I\u2019m right here.”<\/p>\n

Dylan, whose lyrics have influenced generations of fans, is the first songwriter to win the literature prize.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy that awards it said Friday, breaking his silence on the win that he said left him “speechless”. Asked “if I accept the prize? Of course”, the US singer-songwriter said in a call to the academy this week, around a fortnight after he …<\/p>\n

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