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NEW YORK — Bob Dylan has completed his Nobel course requirements.

The Swedish Academy announced Monday that it has received the mandatory lecture from the 2016 literature winner, enabling Dylan to collect US$922,000 in prize money. Spokeswoman Sara Danius described Dylan’s talk as “extraordinary” and “eloquent.” Nobel Prize officials said the 26-minute talk was recorded on Sunday in Los Angeles and an audio clip is posted on the academy’s website.

Danius said its delivery to the academy meant that “the Dylan adventure is coming to a close.”

Widely regarded as the most influential songwriter of his time, Dylan received the Nobel Literature diploma and medal in April but was still required to give a speech to receive the money. He took weeks to publicly acknowledge even winning the prize, which was announced in October and greeted with both joy and dismay that a rock star had received an honour previously given to William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alice Munro. He did not attend December’s Nobel ceremony in Stockholm and his acceptance remarks were read by the United States Ambassador to Sweden.

Dylan’s recording is a celebration of books and music and of the common language among art forms. In a raspy delivery, with lounge-style piano in the background, he called Buddy Holly his first musical hero, praised his “imaginative verses” and remembered seeing him in concert not long before Holly died in a 1959 plane crash.