Bob Dylan finally delivers Nobel lecture

Bob Dylan has finally delivered the lecture he needed to give in order to keep the prize money for his Nobel Prize for literature.

The veteran star won the 8m krona ($900,000, £727,000) prize in October but did not collect the award until the end of March at a private event.

And it has taken him until now to issue his taped lecture, which cites Buddy Holly as an influence  BBC News reports.

Dylan had until 10 June to deliver the lecture or forfeit the prize money.

The singer mentioned three influential books - Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Homer's The Odyssey and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front - in his lecture.

"The speech is extraordinary and, as one might expect, eloquent. Now that the lecture has been delivered, the Dylan adventure is coming to a close," Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, wrote in a blog post.