Bob Dylan Confirms Non-Attendance At Nobel Prize Ceremony

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38003818

I bet the Prize Committee wished they hadn't bothered now....should have given it to Leonard Cohen....at least he would have a good excuse not to turn up.

IMHO, Dylan is a arrogant ***.

[Cloverjo]

They're a bit different, murdo.

[EdmundD]

Isn't he also required to deliver a lecture within a certain time frame?

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - //But I'll bet he could afford to retire if he wanted to tbh.
;o) //

Indeed he could - but he obviously doesn't want to.

[agchristie]

"I get very meditative sometimes, and this one phrase was going through my head: ‘Work while the day lasts, because the night of death cometh when no man can work.'

Bob Dylan

[bednobs]

it's not like he applied - i don't supose he had any control over being nominated or winning

[agchristie]

bednobs - very true. I expect that if someone told him that he had a strong chance of winning the prize he would have questioned their sanity!

[ludwig]

He's probably just not that interested, and actually, why should he be? He probably got accolade fatigue many years ago, and even a Nobel prize means very little to him.

He perhaps should have acknowledged it earlier - a cursory 'thanks' would have sufficed instead of the strange period of silence - but that's about it.

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - //He's probably just not that interested, and actually, why should he be? He probably got accolade fatigue many years ago, and even a Nobel prize means very little to him.

He perhaps should have acknowledged it earlier - a cursory 'thanks' would have sufficed instead of the strange period of silence - but that's about it. //

We can al second-guess Mr Dylan's reason for the delay in his response, but rather than the 'cursory thanks' you suggest, he has hand-written a letter to the Prize Committee thanking them for the Prize and confirming his honour at receiving it, but also confirming that he is unable to receive it in person because of prior commitments.

That doesn't sound to me like someone with 'award fatigue'.

[RandyMarsh]

i don't think they give the prizes just to people who will turn up, it is not an office party.

[ludwig]

// That doesn't sound to me like someone with 'award fatigue'. //

You're probably right. He's most likely chuffed to bits and gutted he can't go to the ceremony.

[ludwig]

// That doesn't sound to me like someone with 'award fatigue'. //

You're probably right. He's most likely chuffed to bits and gutted he can't go to the ceremony.