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Smith will perform “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’’ at the Nobel banquet on Dec. 10, while Dylan’s speech will also be read out at the event, the Nobel Prize organisers said on Twitter.
Dylan said in the wake of being awarded the 8 million Swedish crown ($870,000) prize that he would accept the award but that he would not attend the ceremony in Stockholm.
Local news agency TT said the speech would be read by Swedish Academy member Horace Engdahl.
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Other Nobel Prize winners who have not attended the prize ceremony include Britain’s Harold Pinter and Elfriede Jelinek of Austria.
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