President Obama invited the American Nobel Prize winners for a meeting at the oval office but Bob Dylan did not show up.
WASHINGTON, United States – Singer Bob Dylan blew off a supposed meeting with President Barack Obama and other American Nobel Prize winners on Wednesday.
Dylan and four other Nobel prize recipients were invited by President Obama for a private meeting at the Oval Office but the singer, songwriter and artist did not show up.
Before the scheduled meet-and-greet, White House Press Secretary John Earnest said that several of the winner but not all are coming which he later named as Dylan.
“Bob Dylan will not be at the White House today, so everybody can relax”, Earnest told the reporters during his Wednesday briefing.
Dylan did not offer any reason for not attending the meeting.
But the private conversation pushed through where President Obama met with Duncan Haldane and J. Micheal Kosterlitz who are both laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Oliver Hart; and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Sir J. Fraser Stoddart.
The outgoing American President lauded the laureates and said that their work would lead to new products and technology, many of which cannot be anticipated yet, and would inspire scholars and scientists in the future.
Bob Dylan is the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient.
President Obama presented Dylan with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Meanwhile, it was discovered that it is not only Obama that Dylan is snubbing.
The “Lady Lady Lady” singer also told the Swedish Academy that he is not coming to Stockholm on December 10 for the scheduled party of the Nobel laureates and also would not attend the awards ceremony.
Dylan, or Robert Allen Zimmerman in real life, has been influential in popular music and culture for more than 50 years already. His lyrics incorporated a wide range of social, political, philosophical and literary influences.
