Stockholm. The Nobel prize for Literature 2016, Bob Dylan, was today, Saturday, the great absentee in the ceremony of the awards in Stockholm that awarded by the king carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, even though it was celebrated through the voice of his compatriot Patti Smith, who performed one of his hits.
“The beauty of their songs is of the highest level,” praised jury member Horace Engdahl in his speech of appreciation for musician of folk and rock.
Dylan, age 75, became in October the first composer of songs in to receive the Nobel prize for Literature.
“it should Not be surprising that a singer/songwriter now receive the Nobel prize for Literature,” said Engdahl. “In the distant past was sung all the poetry”. And Dylan “has returned to his style sublime” poetry, “lost Romanticism”.
The jury mentioned the name of Dylan along with the other great poets like Ovid and Shakespeare. And as for facing the criticism for the distinction of a musician, Engdahl added: “When the people of the literary world sighs there to remind you that the gods do not write, but dance and sing”.
for more than 20 years, the name Bob Dylan was among those aspiring to the Nobel prize of Literature, but in the long run the most prestigious award of the letters with the singer-songwriter of us always ended up with empty hands. Up until this year.
The pop icon Patti Smith sang “A hard rain’s a-gonna fall”, Dylan, during the ceremony in Stockholm, while outside it was raining heavily, but suddenly made a mistake and stopped mid-song. “I’m sorry, I’m so nervous,” said Smith, who received a strong applause from the crowd.
After this setback, Smith has not had problems in the end of the song Dylan wrote with just 21 years. Shortly after Dylan, born with the name Robert Allen Zimmerman, became famous with “Blowin’ in the wind”. The author of themes, such as “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Blowin’ in the wind”, “A hard rain’s a-gonna fall” or “Mr. Tambourine man” had already been named previously with the Pulitzer honor or the Prince of Asturias of the Arts by the poetic force and the influence of their compositions.
At the banquet offered after the ceremony read out a speech of thanks from Dylan.
After the announcement of the prize in October, the rock star of us kept silent for a long time. And in mid-November said that there would come to meet him, claiming other commitments, however, are unknown.
The jury now waiting for Dylan to go to Stockholm before the spring (boreal) to deliver the traditional acceptance speech of the Nobel peace prize, it is fundamental to receive the award. At the ceremony in Stockholm, the king carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden delivered today the Nobel prizes for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics. Before, the colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, had received the Nobel Peace prize in a ceremony separate to that held in the Oslo city hall.
The awards, which are delivered to coincide with the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, its founder, are endowed with eight million Swedish crowns (about 830 thousand euros).
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