At Las Vegas concert, Dylan mum on his Nobel Prize

Bob Dylan did not mention his winning the Nobel Prize in literature, during a concert in Las Vegas Thursday night.

His 90-minute performance included several well-known songs, with the 1960’s anthem “Blowin’ in the Wind” drawing an especially enthusiastic response.

But the star focused solely on the business of making music and he did not bring up the coveted award.

Though he rarely gives interviews, there had been some thought that Dylan would say something while on stage about the literature honor, the first given to a musician in the Nobel’s 115-year history.

A representative said earlier in the day that Dylan had no immediate comment.

Dylan was named the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday in a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award to someone primarily seen as a musician.

The Swedish Academy cited the American musician for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as popular music.

The literature award was the last of this year’s Nobel Prizes to be announced. The six awards will be handed out on December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896.