No response yet from Dylan on Nobel win

October 14, 2016 19:00

Twenty-four hours after awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said today they had still not managed to speak to the reclusive US singer.

"The Academy has spoken to Dylan's agent and his tour manager," the Academy's chancellor Odd Zschiedrich said.

But as yet they have spoken directly to Dylan himself, he said.

The new poet laureate of rock'n'roll played to a packed house in Las Vegas last night, hours after seeing off favourites including Britain's Salman Rushdie to become the first American to win the literature Nobel since Toni Morrison in 1993.

But fans hoping for a gushing response to the win were disappointed -- true to his usual taciturn form, Dylan uttered not a word between songs, leaving the world to keep guessing what he thought about his elevation to the pantheon of literature.

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