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Bob Dylan to receive Nobel prize in Stockholm at weekend: Academy

Published: 29 Mar 2017 - 02:35 pm | Last Updated: 12 Nov 2021 - 03:01 pm
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Stockholm: Music icon Bob Dylan is to receive his Nobel prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it was announced Wednesday.

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