Bob Dylan has written his Nobel Prize speech and Patti Smith will sing at the ceremony

Bob Dylan has written his Nobel Prize speech and Patti Smith will sing at the ceremony

According to the Nobel Foundation, legendary sdinger-songwriter Bob Dylan has already written a speech that will be read out at the traditional Nobel Prize banquet, but he won't be there. As already reported, indeed, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, declined the invitation to the December 10 prize ceremony and banquet, pleading other commitments.

Dylan's "speech of thanks" will be read by a yet-to-be-decided person at the lavish banquet in Stockholm's City Hall.

At the Nobel awards ceremony earlier that day, poet and rocker Patti Smith will perform Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" as a tribute to the artist. Nobel spokeswoman Annika Pontikis says Dylan's diploma and medal will be handed over at a later date that hasn't been determined yet.