"We have stopped trying -- we said everything we needed to his manager and friend ... but we haven't heard anything back," the administrative director of the Swedish Academy Odd Zschiedrich told CNN on Tuesday. "We will have the ceremony as usual, he will have the prize even if he is not there...now we are just waiting for information," he added. I have called and sent e-mails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies," said Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported. Dylan's silence about the Nobel Prize puts a question mark on his appearance at the award ceremony in Sweden scheduled in December. Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Minnesota, US.

Source: bd News24 October 19, 2016 09:56 UTC