Bob Dylan finally picks up Nobel Prize for Literature

April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. recording artist Bob Dylan officially received his Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend during a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy.

"Stockholm was the first stop on Dylan and his band's 2017 tour, and the meeting took place in connection with his concert," said the Nobel Prize website.

Last year, it took Dylan two weeks to acknowledge he'd been announced as a Nobel Prize winner and when he finally did publicly react to the award, he said he wasn't sure he could make it to the ceremony where it would be presented.

In November, he said he was honored but would not travel to Stockholm on Dec. 10 to accept the most important literature prize in the world, due to "pre-existing commitments."