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The Academy's decision to give the bard of "Blowin' in the
Wind" the literature prize caused controversy, only deepened by
Dylan's silence about the award for weeks afterwards and his
no-show at the annual banquet in December.
"The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have
decided to meet this weekend," Sara Danius said in a blog post.
"The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the
Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in
Literature."
The 75-year-old Dylan is due to give concerts in Stockholm on
April 1 and the following day and then another in the southern
Swedish city of Lund on April 9.
Danius said that the notoriously media-shy Dylan would not hold
the traditional Nobel lecture at this point.
"The Swedish Academy is very much looking forward to the weekend
and will show up at one of the performances. Please note that no
Nobel Lecture will be held," Danius wrote.
"The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be
sent at a later point," she added.
In order to receive 8 million Swedish crown ($903,000) prize,
Dylan needs to give a lecture within six months from Dec. 10. It
does not necessarily need not be delivered in Stockholm.
The decision to award the prize to Dylan, whom the Academy said
had "created new poetic expressions within the great American
song tradition," was seen by some as slap in the face to
mainstream writers of poetry and prose.
But the Academy has a tradition of stepping outside the
traditional boundaries of literary form, awarding the 1953 prize
to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in part for his
"brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".
(Reporting by Simon Johnson; Editing by Niklas Pollard)
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