"We were aware that he can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage," he told Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter newspaper in a separate interview.
在另一次采访中,瓦斯特伯格对瑞士《每日新闻报( Dagens Nyheter newspaper)》说道:“我们之前就已经知道迪伦是一个很难搞的人,他不喜欢独自一人出现在舞台之上。”
It is still not known if he will travel to Stockholm to receive the prize on 10 December. If he does not, a ceremony marking his career will go ahead as planned, Mr Wastberg said.
Mr Wastberg called the snub "unprecedented", but one person has previously rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature - French author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964.