Bob Dylan Nobel prize speech: this is 'truly beyond words'

Songwriter sends a speech and Patti Smith to the Nobel awards dinner in Sweden rather than attending in person

Bob Dylan admitted he was stunned and surprised when he was told he had won a Nobel prize because he had never stopped to consider whether his songs were literature.

Dylan, whose speech was read out by the US ambassador to Sweden at the annual awards dinner, said the prize was “something I never could have imagined or seen coming”.

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