{"id":281725,"date":"2016-10-22T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281725"},"modified":"2020-11-01T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T12:33:07","slug":"bob-dylans-nobel-silence-impolite-and-arrogant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/nl\/bob-dylans-nobel-silence-impolite-and-arrogant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan\u2019s Nobel silence \u201cimpolite and arrogant\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
He should refuse it like the French philosopher and explain that as long as they don\u2019t cancel the Nobel Peace Prize of Obama it\u2019s an insult to receive one.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old singer was named the shock winner of the prize last week.<\/p>\n

But all efforts by the Swedish Academy to contact him have failed, and he has not acknowledged the win in public.<\/p>\n

Academy member Per Wastberg told Swedish television: “He is who he is,” adding that there was little surprise Dylan had ignored the news.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

A reference to the prize was removed from Dylan’s website last week.<\/p>\n

It is still not known if he will travel to Stockholm to receive the prize on 10 December. If he does not, a ceremony marking his career will go ahead as planned, Mr Wastberg said.<\/p>\n

Mr Wastberg called the snub “unprecedented”, but one person has previously rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature – French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964.<\/p>\n

And one other recipient was distinctly underwhelmed by the honour conferred upon her by the Swedish Academy.<\/p>\n

On learning she had won the prize in 2007, having returned from doing her shopping, the author\u00a0Doris Lessing responded: “Oh Christ.”<\/p>\n

However, she did attend the ceremony later that year.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-37740379?SThisFB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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