Bob Dylan labelled ‘arrogant’ by Nobel Prize judge just a week after winning landmark literature gong
Per Wasterberg has said it is impolite of the folk singer not to have acknowledged prestigious award
A NOBEL Prize judge has blasted "arrogant" Bob Dylan - just a week after he was handed the body's Literature award.
American folk legend Dylan was named the surprise winner of the prize last Thursday.
But the 75-year-old has been silent on the gong since and even removed mention of it from his website.
That has now prompted the Swede Per Wastberg to launch a withering put-down of the Mr Tambourine Man singer.
Waterberg said: "One can say that it is impolite and arrogant. He is who he is.
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"We were aware that he can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage."
The prize will be awarded in Stockholm on 10 December but it is not known if Minnesota-born Dylan will attend.
When announcing the shock award last week, the Nobel Academy said he had been honoured for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
He joins previous winners like Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinback.
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