Bob Dylan says he might turn up to collect his Nobel Prize a week after judge branded him ‘arrogant’
BOB Dylan said he might collect his Nobel Prize after judges branded him "arrogant" last week.
The Forever Young singer was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature but caused controversy when he failed to comment publicly on the award, and reportedly didn't answer calls from the Nobel Prize committee.
Bob Dylan has been slammed by a Nobel committee member after his failure to acknowledge his literature prize gong
The musician said receiving the award was "amazing [and] incredible."
Speaking to the Telegraph he said: "Absolutely [I will go to the ceremony]. If it's at all possible.
"It's hard to believe. [It's] amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?"
But the 75-year-old had stayed silent on the gong up until now and even removed mention of it from his website.
That 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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