Bob Dylan Breaks Silence on His Nobel Prize: ‘It’s Hard to Believe’
“It’s hard to believe, amazing, incredible. Whoever dreams about something like that?” Dylan told The Telegraph in his first interview since the Swedish Academy announced the honor on Oct. 13. Dylan was recognized for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
The award briefly got some airtime on his website before it was quickly removed, and the musician famously shuns media, but he made an exception for this.
“If I accept the prize? Of course,” Dylan said, according to a Nobel Prize news release. “The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless. I appreciate the honor so much,” he told Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.
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