The musician and canadian writer Leonard Cohen held this Thursday, the Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Bob Dylan and said that to give the award to the singer-songwriter american is like “putting a medal mount Everest being the highest mountain”.
Cohen spoke about the Nobel prize won by Dylan, which generated controversy among some sectors of the world of literature. “You are going to receive the Nobel prize, which for me is like putting a medal mount Everest being the highest mountain (of the world),” said Cohen, referring next to Dylan of the composition popular from the 60′s, and declared fans of the musician born in Minnesota.
The singer-songwriter of 82 years participated in a meeting with the media in Los Angeles to promote his new album “You Want It Darker”. In the talk, the moderator Chris Douridas asked about a recent article by David Remnick in The New Yorker, in which Dylan said, “when people talk about Leonard, obviate to mention their melodies, which along with his lyrics are his true genius”.
Cohen, as the now award-winning Dylan, has been a regular of the pools in recent years to receive the Nobel prize for Literature. According to the decision of the jury of the Swedish Academy, Dylan, 75 years old, has been awarded the Nobel prize for Literature, in 2016 for “having created a new poetic expression in the great tradition of the american song”. EFE
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