Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature
The singer-songwriter was honored "to create new poetic expressions in the great tradition of
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American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, the Swedish
Academy announced Thursday
Dylan was honored "to create new poetic expressions in the great tradition of American song."
The folk-rock legend Minnesota-born face competition from the likes of Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the Syrian poet Adonis, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiongo, and author Joyce Carol Oates US. He is the first player to claim the prize.
It is also the first American to win the literature prize since Toni Morrison won in 1993, and 259 Nobel awarded the US in any field.
When asked if Dylan deserved Price, Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told the Nobel Prize website, "Of course he did, he could not, he is a poet A great poet in the English tradition.!. and a wonderful sampler - a very original sampler. "
"It embodies the tradition, and for 54 years it was for him to constantly reinvent itself, and creating a new identity," he added.
Danius said she had yet to talk to Dylan, but identified his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde as the best example of his work: "It is an extraordinary example of his brilliant form of rhymes and choruses and assemble his thoughts pictorial. "
Addressing the choice of the thought of the Academy can be considered a surprise, Danius said: "If you look away 2500 years, you will discover Homer and Sappho They wrote poems that were to be heard and executed together we often. instruments, and is the same for Bob Dylan We still read Homer and Sappho, and we appreciate it, and it is the same with Dylan - it can be read ..
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