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Academy: Bob Dylan not coming to Stockholm to pick up Nobel Prize

By Bob D'Angelo
Nov 16, 2016

UPDATE: Bob Dylan will not go to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, according to The Associated Press.

Dylan told the Swedish Academy that "he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments make it unfortunately impossible," in a statement released Wednesday.

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