(VOVworld) – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan finally received his Nobel Prize in literature Saturday at a private ceremony in Stockholm.

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (Photo: AFP)

The presentation came five months after the academy announced Dylan was the winner and more than three months after the formal award ceremony, which Dylan didn't attend because of "pre-existing commitments."

The Swedish Academy that hands out the Nobels said on Wednesday that the singer-songwriter got the prize in the “small and intimate setting” he requested while in the city on a two-concert tour.

Bob Dylan is the author of many legendary songs like: “Blowin in Wind”, “The Times They Are a-Changin”, “Like a Rolling Stone”.