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| Bob Dylan's Nobel silence 'impolite and arrogant' |
| 2016-10-22 |
| [BBC] Bob Dylan's failure to acknowledge his Nobel Prize in literature is "impolite and arrogant", according to a member of the body that awards it. The 75-year-old singer was named the shock winner of the prize last week. But all efforts by the Swedish Academy to contact him have failed, and he has not acknowledged the win in public. Academy member Per Wastberg told Swedish television: "He is who he is," adding that there was little surprise Dylan had ignored the news. "We were aware that he can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage," he told Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper in a separate interview. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #10 Probably hasn't stopped laughing at them yet. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-10-22 23:11 |
| #9 He probably can't believe this crap either. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-10-22 19:47 |
| #8 The Peace prize is a joke but I thought the others were still prestiges. In Bob's defense he was probably stoned out of his gourd on peyote in some kind of Indian Sweet-tent away from civilization and suddenly they surprise him with an award he didn't know he was even in the running for. Give him a break. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-10-22 19:28 |
| #7 Nashville Skyline was one of his best albums IMO. Johnny Cash was on the album also. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-22 16:21 |
| #6 At last someone tells them off in the best way. |
| Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 2016-10-22 13:40 |
| #5 Maybe he's just not into you, Per Wastberg... |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-10-22 12:24 |
| #4 Where were they when Dylan was writing all of his hit songs? Ignoring him, that's where. Treating him like a leper. But he didn't need them then and he doesn't need them now. They are worse than irrelevant. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-10-22 12:22 |
| #3 Yasser Arafat got one of these baubles too for peace. Al Gore won 1/2 a Nobel peace prize. They have become a joke. As Groucho said: "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-22 11:27 |
| #2 I wouldn't want my name associated with Rigoberto Menchu and jugears either... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-10-22 10:25 |
| #1 Don't you know who we are!! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-22 10:15 |