Stockholm — Music icon Bob Dylan will not attend the Nobel ceremony in December to accept his literature prize because he has "other commitments", the Swedish Academy said on Wednesday. "The Swedish Academy received a personal letter from Bob Dylan [on Tuesday] where he explained that he could not make himself available in December," it said in a statement. "He wishes that he could accept the award personally, but other commitments make it unfortunately impossible. He underlined that he felt incredibly honoured by the Nobel prize," it said. The Swedish Academy said it respected Dylan’s decision, but that it was "unusual" for a Nobel laureate not to come to Stockholm to accept the award in person. Nobel laureates are honoured every year on December 10 — the death anniversary of the prize’s founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, inventor and philanthropist. Several other literature prize winners have skipped the Nobel ceremony in the past for various reasons — Harold Pinter be...
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