Bringing it all back home: Bob Dylan finally agrees to collect Nobel prize

Singer to accept prize in ‘small and intimate’ Stockholm setting having turned down invitation to official ceremony last year

Bob Dylan has finally agreed to accept his Nobel literature prize, the Swedish academy in Stockholm has announced, having turned down his invitation to the original ceremony in December.

“The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend,” Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the academy, wrote in a blog post. “The academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel prize in literature.

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