Days after Bob Dylan was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, no one knows how he feels about the prestigious award not even the Nobel judges.
The Swedish Academy, which bestows the annual honour, says it hasn't been able to reach Dylan since the award was announced last Thursday (October 13).
We haven't established direct contact with Bob Dylan yet, but I have spoken to one of his closest associates," the academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, told The Associated Press in an email on October 18.
The academy hopes he will accept the invitation to collect his award at the annual Nobel ceremony in Stockholm in December, but if he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to," Danius said.
She noted that literature laureates have skipped the ceremony before. Elfriede Jelinek stayed home in 2004, citing a social phobia. Harold Pinter and Alice Munro missed the ceremony in 2005 and 2013, respectively, due to health reasons.
Only two people have declined a Nobel Prize in literature. Boris Pasternak did so under pressure from Soviet authorities in 1958 and Jean-Paul Sartre, who declined all official honours, turned it down in 1964.
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