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After 15 days of mystery, the singer and songwriter Bob Dylan accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. According to a press release of the Swedish Academy, the musician contacted the organization to tell him that he had been left without words face recognition.
“What if I accept the prize? " Of course”, said the singer Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the institution. “I very much appreciate the honor," added the composer.
“This week Bob Dylan called the Swedish Academy" according to the statement released yesterday by the academy on his Twitter account. “The news about the Nobel peace Prize left me speechless," he said to Danius.
Bob Dylan plan to pick up your Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm in December, according to an interview published last Friday that finally breaks her silence about the award, describing it as “amazing, incredible", according to AFP.
“It’s hard to believe," said the singer-songwriter, american the british newspaper Daily Telegraph. “Who would dream something like that?". Asked about whether he would be attending the banquet that is offered to the laureates with the Nobel prize in Stockholm on 10 December, chaired by the king of Sweden, carl XVI Gustaf, Dylan replied: “of course, if it is possible."
last October 13, the Swedish Academy announced the Nobel Prize for Literature this year were awarded to Bob Dylan for having created a new poetic expressions within the great tradition of the american song".
After the announcement, the musician, 75 years old, kept silent and did not reply to repeated phone calls. The attitude of the composer caused the anger of leading members of the Swedish Academy.
Per Wastberg, writer and member of the Academy, accused the singer of being “rude and arrogant" and said that the fact that the Academy didn’t know if Dylan thought to collect or not their award was “unprecedented".
When asked why did not answer to the calls of the Academy, Dylan said: “Well, I’m here." The composer, whose letters have influenced generations of followers, is the first singer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
With its folk-rock counsel, his dark glasses and his voice is rough, the singer-songwriter is a living legend of american popular music of the TWENTIETH century, a pioneer of the protest song and a major influence for generations of artists.
“troubadour folk" to the Nobel
at the troubadour folk of the cabarets of Greenwich Village, in New York, at the beginning of the sixties to the super star honored in 2012 by one of his fans, president Obama, Robert Allen Zimmerman continued to always have their own way of music, rebellious and unpredictable.
Like A Rolling Stone, the grandchild of jewish immigrants from Russia, born may 24, 1941 in Duluth (Minnesota), continues, 75 years, touring the world with his harmonica and his guitar on a tour named Without End, whose next stage is scheduled this Thursday in Las Vegas, united States.
In may of this year Dylan released his album number 37, Fallen Angels, in which he plays themes standard americans popularized by Frank Sinatra. In his youth, like many american teens, was seduced by the charm of the rock with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, before forming his own group.
In 1959, when I was studying at the University of Minneapolis, he discovers the pioneers of blues, country and folk: Robert Johnson, Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie. From that point adopted the stage name of Bob Dylan.
His lyricism exquisite garnered other international awards: Prince of Asturias (2007), Pulitzer (2008) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012), delivered by president Barack Obama.
Dylan, the first musician awarded by the Academy since the creation of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901, it happens in the list to the belarusian Svetlana Alexievich, award-winning in 2015.
The Nobel Prize in Literature, which closed the season 2016, gives the award-winning a sum of eight million crowns (933 thousand dollars).
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