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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". All rights to the Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan are reserved and the Nobel Lecture may not be published or otherwise used by third parties with one exception: the audio file containing the Nobel Lecture, as published at Nobelprize. Listen to Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture on SoundCloud. When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature

His first album, Bob Dylan, was released in 1962, and he followed it up with a host of albums now regarded as masterpieces, including Blonde on Blonde in 1966, and Blood on the Tracks in 1975. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in contemporary popular culture, though his music has always proved divisive. The writer Will Self, however, called on Dylan to follow the example of the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre and turn down the prize. My only caveat about the award is that it cheapens Dylan to be associated at all with a prize founded on an explosives and armaments fortune, and more often awarded to a buggins whose turn it is than a world-class creative artist, Self said. Really, it’s a bit like when Sartre was awarded the Nobel – he was primarily a philosopher, and had the nous to refuse it.

Songwriter sends a speech and Patti Smith to the Nobel awards dinner in Sweden rather than attending in person. Bob Dylan admitted he was stunned and surprised when he was told he had won a Nobel prize because he had never stopped to consider whether his songs were literature. Dylan, whose speech was read out by the US ambassador to Sweden at the annual awards dinner, said the prize was something I never could have imagined or seen coming

Alexandra Schwartz writes about the lecture that Bob Dylan wrote in response to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016. Get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box every day. Submit. In a recording of his Nobel lecture, which he submitted this week, Bob Dylan sounds like a lounge singer lost in contemplative patter, just letting the thoughts flow. Photograph by jeffrey r. staab, cbs via getty. Dylanphiles, breathe easy: our man Bob is a Nobel Laureate at last.

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Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature, organizers of the award said Thursday (Oct. 13). They lauded the 75-year-old music star "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. With songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Dylan created anthems for the anti-war and civil rights movements. The literature honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, the others being prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and the Nobel Peace Prize. The news came as somewhat of a surprise as it typically has gone to authors known for novels, short stories or poetry. Since 1901, the prize has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, according to Nobel's will, written "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.

Absolutely, he told American music writer Edna Gunderson in an exceedingly rare interview published in The Telegraph newspaper to coincide with an exhibition of his art at London’s Halcyon Gallery next week. If it’s at all possible.