STOCKHOLM: One sings of peace, the other makes peace: Bob Dylan will not travel to Stockholm on Saturday to accept his Nobel prize, but Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will receive his award in Oslo for a deal signed with FARC rebels.

In Stockholm, where the prizes for literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics are traditionally awarded on December 10, the formal ceremony will be marked by Dylan’s no-show, as the first songwriter to win the literary accolade has declined because of “pre-existing” commitments.

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