Last week, Bob Dylan was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” As is tradition, on December 10, all Nobel Prize winners are invited to the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony–a Stockholm banquet where they receive their Nobel Medal, Nobel Diploma, and a document from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden confirming the prize. It is not yet clear, however, whether Dylan will attend, as he has not responded to any of the Nobel committee’s emails or phone calls, trying to get in touch, The Guardian reports.

The committee’s Permanent Secretary Sara Danius (who announced Dylan’s award) reportedly told state radio, “Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough.” Despite his silence, she said, “I am not at all worried,” and added, “I think he will show up.” Regardless of his attendance in Stockholm, Danius confirmed the Prize in Literature is still Dylan’s: “If he doesn’t want to come, he won’t come. It will be a big party in any case and the honor belongs to him.”

Artists from across disciplines have reacted to Bob Dylan’s win: Tom Waits congratulated Dylan, saying “No voice is greater”; Leonard Cohen said giving Dylan the Nobel Prize “is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain”; and Tim Heidecker even impersonated Dylan on a song called “Talkin’ Nobel Prize.”

Read the op-ed “The World Does Not Need Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature” on the Pitch.