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

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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