Details of Bob Dylan’s receipt of his Nobel literature prize were being kept under close wraps on Saturday leaving those wanting to know more about it blowin’ in the wind.
It’s not that the times kept a-changin’, it was that no one would say what was happening. The Swedish Academy, which hands out the Nobels, said on Wednesday Dylan will receive his diploma and medal while in Stockholm, bit in a “small and intimate setting” according to Dylan’s wishes.
The prize-givers also said they planned to show up at one of Dylan’s performances — on Saturday and Sunday in Stockholm and on April 9 in Lund. But that was it. A blackout. Probably until someone says it’s all over now.
The decision to give the bard the prize caused a row that only deepened when Dylan was silent about the award for weeks. He then said he would be a no-show at the annual banquet in December.
“Getting ready for Dylan’s concerts in Stockholm this weekend,” Academy secretary Sara Danius said in a blog post on Friday. She said that Dylan would probably send a taped version at a later point.
