Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been slammed by organisers of the Nobel Prize after failing to acknowledge his recent win.
Seventy-five-year-old Dylan last week won the Nobel Prize for literature, in a surprise move.
However, one member of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the prize, has labelled the singer "impolite and arrogant" after attempts to get in contact with him failed.
A reference to the prize win was also recently removed from Dylan's website, making it appear the singer may be denouncing the honour.
Speaking to a Swedish magazine, Academy member Per Wastberg said: "We were aware that [Dylan] can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage," adding in a separate interview that "he is who he is".
Mr Wastberg called the snub "unprecedented."
If Dylan refuses to accept the award at the Stockholm ceremony in December, he would be only the second person in history to reject the honour.
He would follow French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 but turned it down.
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