Story highlights The singer-songwriter is famously shy of the news media

He must give a lecture to accept the lucrative award

(CNN) "How many times must a man turn his head

And pretend he just doesn't see?"

In the case of Bob Dylan, he seems to have had a change of heart.

After a long chase, the Swedish Academy has finally reached an arrangement to give the singer his Nobel Prize in Literature.

But it wasn't easy.