Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to give it true value. — Albert Schweitzer
10/22/2016
Nobel panel gives up knockin’ on Dylan’s door
Bob Dylan criticised as 'impolite and arrogant' by Nobel academy member
Singer-songwriter’s
failure to respond to phone calls from the Swedish Academy after being
awarded the Nobel literature prize ‘unprecedented’
“It’s impolite and arrogant,” said the academy member, Swedish writer Per Wastberg, in comments aired on SVT public television.
On the evening of 13 October, the day the literature prize winner was
announced, Dylan played a concert in Las Vegas during which he made no comment at all to his fans.
He ended the concert with a version of the Frank Sinatra hit “Why Try
To Change Me Now?”, taken to be a nod towards his longstanding aversion
to the media.
Every 10 December Nobel prize winners are invited to Stockholm to
receive their awards from King Carl XVI Gustaf and give a speech during a
banquet.
The academy still does not know if Dylan plans to come.
“This is an unprecedented situation,” Wastberg said.
Anders Barany, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
recalled that Albert Einstein snubbed the academy after being awarded
the physics prize in 1921.
In 1964 French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refused the literature prize outright. Other contenders for this year’s prize included Salman Rushdie, Syrian poet Adonis and Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
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