Bob Dylan was absent, but his name dominated the awards gala of the Nobel – LaCapital.com.ar

Never before has a winner with the Nobel prize he was so present in a ceremony like yesterday’s, in which the protagonist did not attend. Bob Dylan, master of paradoxes, he managed with his absence to capture the attention of all. As in one of his most famous songs, “Blowin’ in the wind”, his name was floating in the wind during the gala in Stockholm, which was marked by the soulful performance of his compatriot Patti Smith, performing almost in tears a composition of Dylan, and the magnificent speech of the Swedish Academy in recognition of a creator who “changed” the “idea of literature”.

“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 american I 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 that 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 topics 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 star of american rock remained 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 presented 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 (see page 36).

The ceremony began with a speech by the president of the Nobel Foundation Carl-Henrik Heldin, who warned of the extension of populism and of how political leaders of Europe and the united States “are gaining votes with the denial of knowledge and scientific truths”.

The Nobel prize for economics won the american Oliver Hart and the Finnish Bengt Holmstrom for his contribution to the theory of contracts. The chemistry Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg (France), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University (USA) and Bernard L. Feringa, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. The physics the british David J. Thouless on the one hand and Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, on the other, by the discoveries of theoretical transitions in phases and the phases of topological matter, which open the door to a world in which matter can assume unknown states. And the medicine, the japanese Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries about the mechanism of autophagy, a process essential for the degradation and recycling of components of the organism’s cells.

Of the act had to be removed one of the winners. David Thouless, 82 years, received his award from the hands of the king Carlos Gustavo, after which he was helped out of the living room and his chair was removed from the stage.

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 (approximately 830.000 euros).

fine ceremony. The king carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and his family are over you in the scenario, which also shows the laureates and the jury.