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Oct 21, 2016 · Bob Dylan c1968. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive. Nobel prize in literature. This article is more than 7 years old. Bob Dylan is not the first songwriter to win the Nobel prize for...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is not awarded posthumously, and Mr. Dylan, now in his 70s, has battled heart disease. Alfred Nobel’s will decreed that the prize should go to a writer with “the...
Oct 13, 2016 · Bob Dylan Is a Genius of Almost Unparalleled Influence, but He Shouldn’t Have Gotten the Nobel. By Stephen Metcalf. Oct 13, 201611:11 AM. Bob Dylan, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in...
Dec 12, 2016 · Bob Dylan’s silence upon being named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature earlier this year was widely taken as a statement in itself.
Oct 18, 2016 · The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to a writer who has produced for the field of literature, in Alfred Nobel’s words, “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. Dylan won the ...
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Oct 14, 2016 · As the Swedish Academy yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, voices from around the literary community emerged on all sides of this uncanticipated choice.
Sep 30, 2023 · On June 5th, 2017, he gave his Nobel lecture, in which he quoted Homer’s Odyssey: “Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They’re meant to be sung, not read. The words in Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be acted on the stage.
