this Is the first time that the Nobel for Literature is awarded to a musician.
it Also welcomed the award as a playwright and performer of puerto rican origin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who said that “all composers” applaud the award for Dylan. In 1960 he became successful with songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They are A-Changin”, songs that became a landmark of the era and the struggle for civil rights, as well as a voice for those who reproving the Vietnam war. “His influence on contemporary music is profound,” said the Swedish Academy to explain the award.
“Dylan has the status of an icon”.
“The great american tradition of the song is not the great Russian tradition of the song (.) What is the contribution made by Dylan to the world’s culture, except to the u.s.?”
In the presence of dozens of journalists, Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, pointed out that the work of Dylan has been characterized by a new poetic expression.
His work includes little more than 40 albums, from their first album, “Bob Dylan“, in 1962, to “Fallen Angels”, released in the spring of 2016.
In an unexpected twist, the Swedish academy awarded to the singer-songwriter, american Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016.
The Academy, in the biographical data on the winner, remember that, in addition to producing albums with songs their own, Dylan has published experimental works such as “Tarantula” (1971) and a collection of his writings and drawings in 1973. The Swedish Academy says: “as an artist has been highly versatile and has worked as a painter, actor and author of screenplays“.
Born in 1941 in Duluth (Minnesota) as Robert Allen Zimmerman, interest, Bob Dylan by the american popular music -especially for Woody Guthrie – he woke up in his adolescence, as well as the Beat generation and the poets modernists.
The singer-songwriter received in 2012, the Medal of Freedom, Barack Obama’s hands, and on the 10th of December to receive the Nobel prize for Literature.
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