Bob Dylan wins Nobel Lit prize Hooray!

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Salute to Bob Dylan who finally gets deserved recognition
Sunday 16th October, 2016 - To the surprise of many, Bob Dylan has become the first singer-songwriter to win the Nobel prize in literature.

As the news broke, I was in the middle of teaching James Joyce to some undergraduates – an author who did not win the Nobel, but is often considered a pinnacle of high literature. Many wouldn’t look to compare these two artists, not leastthose already protesting that Dylan’s win cheapens the award. But in many ways, they’re alike. I’m thrilled. Dylan’s win has been a slow train coming. Meanwhile, Dylan will have been gearing up for another gig – much as he has been doing for more than half a century. On his Nobel-winning night he’s set to play Las Vegas, so it’s good to hear that he’s won a prize based on the reasonable judgement of a committee of high-minded enlightened experts and not just on the throw of the dice.

In terms of stamina alone, he’s a worthy winner but – more than that – it is the quality and the generosity of the achievement that is a pleasure to recognise. It’s great for his millions of fans around the world, old and young, great for the prize and great for the idea that popular music and serious literature aren’t necessarily so different after all. Members of the media react to the news that Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel prize in literature. The world of Dylan’s most distinctive lyrics is probably more Las Vegas than it is Stockholm – his songs are more often populated with gamblers than writers and academics. But his stature as the poet of rock and roll has never really been much in doubt. The significant presence of literary culture in what Variety magazine once mocked as the “deliberately iggerunt” vernacular language of his songs has increasingly been revealed.

The seriousness of the literary as well as musical achievement has gradually gained more and more respect and leading academic critics, such as Christopher Ricks, have been keen to recognise and to try to account for it. His autobiographical Chronicles are packed with references to and anecdotes about writers. References and anecdotes are also something that filled Joyce’s pages. Curiously, Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records at the time Dylan was beginning his recording career, gave him a first-edition copy of Joyce’s masterwork Ulysses. Dylan professed that “he couldn’t make hide nor hair of it”. He wanted the poet Archibald MacLeish to explain it to him but didn’t get around to asking in the end.

Readers of Joyce as well as Dylan might recognise that as just the kind of thing that happens to Joyce’s hero Leopold Bloom. Ulysses is full of snatches of songs and music – and if it had been written a few years later Bob Dylan would have been in there for sure. What a lucky man to own a first edition of such a famous text – now one of the most prized and valuable of all collectable rare and vintage books (one sold in 2009 for £275,000) as well as one that is most valued by serious literary critics and readers all over the world. Not a bad insurance policy just in case the recording career didn’t take off.

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Will Bob Dylan claim his Nobel Prize? Academy have still to hear from the musician after he was named winner of the prestigious award
Saturday 15th October, 2016 - Singer Bob Dylan has been named the Nobel Prize winner for literature; However the Nobel Academy say they have yet to hear from the musician; The Academy's chancellor say they have not spoken directly to him; Dylan was awarded the prize for creating 'poetic expression' in his songs

More than 24 hours after being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature musician Bob Dylan has yet to claim his award. The Swedish Academy who award the prize say they have yet to hear from the reclusive singer about whether he will claim the Nobel Prize for literature after he was announced the winner yesterday. The 75-year-old American singer-songwriter was named as the new poet laureate after being named as a Nobel Prize winner by the Swedish Academy yesterday. He was cited as being given the award for 'creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.

However, a day on the Nobel committee say they have still not managed to speak to the reclusive singer. The Academy's chancellor told AFP: The Academy has spoken to Dylan's agent and his tour manager.' But as yet they have not spoken directly to Dylan himself, he added. According to the Washington Post, which contacted people close to the 75-year-old star: 'Dylan remained silent throughout the day about the award'. One of his friends, singer Bob Neuwirth, told the Post: 'He may not even acknowledge it.'

The singer grew up in a Jewish middle-class family. He's the first American winner of the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1992​

It came after Dylan played to a packed house in Las Vegas on Thursday night, hours after seeing off favourites including Britain's Salman Rushdie to become the first American to win the literature Nobel since Toni Morrison in 1993. But fans hoping for a gushing response to the win were disappointed as true to his usual taciturn form, Dylan uttered not a word between songs, leaving the world to keep guessing what he thought about his elevation to the pantheon of literature. Each year, Nobel laureates are invited to Stockholm on December 10 to receive their award from the Swedish king and give a speech at a banquet. But for the moment the Academy does not know whether Dylan plans to come or not.

Dylan (pictured) had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as pop music​

In 1964 the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre refused the literature prize as soon as he was told he had won it, rejecting the 273,000 kronor prize awarded at the time. In 2016 Dylan stands to claim eight million kronor ($906,000 or 822,000 euros). Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as pop music. The choice was met by gasps and a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. Academy permanent secretary Sara Danius said that while Dylan performs his poetry in the form of songs, that's no different from the ancient Greeks, whose works were often performed to music.

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Dylan's music increases by 500 percent following Nobel win
October 14, 2016 — Following Bob Dylan's win for the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, the singer-songwriter's music has increased by more than 500 percent on Spotify.

A day after Dylan's win, the digital music platform said Friday that streams for his songs jumped by 512 percent globally. His most-listened song after earning the prize was "Like a Rolling Stone," which was increased by 258 percent.

Dylan is the first musician to earn the Nobel Prize in literature. The 75-year-old is arguably the most iconic poet-musician of his generation.

He's the first American winner of the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1993.

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Dylan will accept the Nobel prize...

Dylan tells Swedish Academy he accepts Nobel Prize
October 29, 2016 — Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him "speechless."

The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan himself contacted them and said "of course" he would accept the prize. Danius told Sweden's TT news agency that Dylan called her Tuesday evening and they spoke for about 15 minutes. "The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless," Dylan told Danius, according to a statement posted Friday on the academy's website. "I appreciate the honor so much." It has not yet been decided whether Dylan will attend any Nobel events in Stockholm in December, Danius said.

In an interview with British newspaper The Telegraph posted Friday, Dylan was quoted as saying he "absolutely" wants to attend the Dec. 10 prize ceremony, "if it's at all possible." Danius said the academy will do "all it can" to have a schedule suiting Dylan if he wants to come to Stockholm, according to TT. The 75-year-old singer-songwriter was awarded the prize on Oct. 13 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Dylan at first was silent after the announcement, and a member of the Swedish Academy called the silence "impolite and arrogant."

Dylan has accepted numerous awards over the years, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for which he attended a White House ceremony in 2012. But he also has a history of taking his time acknowledging them. In 2013, he became the first rock star voted into the elite American Academy of Arts and Letters, which made him an honorary member. According to executive director Virginia Dajani, the academy informed Dylan of the decision — through his manager, Jeff Rosen — in January of that year. Only in May 2013 did Dylan respond, through his manager. If Dylan travels to Stockholm for the Nobel ceremony, it won't be the first time he receives an award from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. In 2000, Dylan collected the Polar Music Prize from him.

Dylan tells Swedish Academy he accepts Nobel Prize

 

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Nobel organisers hope for Bob Dylan lecture in Stockholm next year
Nobel winner Bob Dylan is likely to travel to Stockholm next year and might give his Nobel Lecture then, the Swedish Academy said.

The singer was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature but will not attend the prize ceremony. Dylan will probably give a concert in the Swedish capital, offering "a perfect opportunity to deliver his lecture", the academy said. The Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize for literature. Sara Danius, permanent secretary, told Swedish public radio that the Nobel Foundation's rules for laureate lectures are "flexible". Dylan can deliver his as "a written speech, a spontaneous discourse, a film" or another format of his choosing, she said.

In 2004, Austrian playwright and Nobel literature prize winner Elfriede Jelinek stayed at home because of social phobia. Her lecture was pre-recorded and shown on video in Stockholm. Dylan has said he cannot attend the December 10 prize ceremony, pleading other commitments. The 75-year-old American singer-songwriter was awarded the prize on October 13 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

The Swedish Academy says Bob Dylan is not coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature​

The Academy said in a statement it had "decided not to organise an alternative plan" for his lecture. The laureate lectures must be held within six months from the December 10 ceremonies, on a subject related to the topic of the prizes. Normally, they occur during the week leading up to the award ceremony. However, several recipients have delivered the lectures after the fact.

Former political prisoner and de facto leader of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, delivered hers 21 years after being award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Peace prize recipient Lech Walesa, the Polish dissident and leader of the Solidarity union movement, gave his lecture 12 years later while visiting Norway as Poland's president. The six Nobel Prizes will be officially conferred upon winners in Stockholm and Oslo next month on the anniversary of award founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

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Dylan expresses awe over Nobel Prize, alludes to Shakespeare
December 10, 2016 — Bob Dylan has expressed awe at receiving the Nobel Prize in literature and thanked the Swedish Academy for including him among the "giants" of writing.

Dylan was absent from Saturday's award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm. But in remarks read by the U.S. ambassador, he alluded to the debate about whether the award should go to a songwriter.

From left, Elisabeth Bootsma, chemistry laureate J. Fraser Stoddart, Princess Madeleine, physics laureate Duncan Haldane, Queen Silvia, Carl-Henrik Heldin, chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Crown Princess Victoria, physics laureate Michael Kosterlitz, Princess Sofia and physics laureate Jean-Pierre Sauvage sit at the table of Honour at the 2016 Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden​

Dylan said when Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet," he probably was thinking about which actors to pick and where to find a skull. In his words: "I'm sure the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was: 'Is this literature?'"

Dylan said he too focuses on "mundane matters" such as recording in the right key, not on whether his songs are literature. He thanked the Academy for considering the question and "providing such a wonderful answer."

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Patti Smith stands in for Dylan at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony, but unfortunately botches the words to "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall".

 

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Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel Prize, months after ceremony
Sat, 01 Apr 2017 - Dylan accepted his medal at a small, private meeting while on tour in Stockholm.

Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled concert in the city. No further details were given. Swedish Academy officials previously said Dylan would not deliver his Nobel lecture, a traditional condition of receiving the 8m kroner ($900,000, £727,000) prize money, at the event. He is expected to deliver a taped version of the lecture later.

A new mural of Dylan in Minnesota, his home state, appeared soon after the announcement​

If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money. A member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, told the Associated Press news agency "it went very well indeed", and that 75-year-old Dylan was "a very nice, kind man". In an earlier blog post, the academy's secretary said the setting would be "small and intimate". No media were present at Dylan's request. After receiving the prize, Dylan performed a concert on Saturday evening at the Stockholm Waterfront venue. A second concert is planned for Sunday evening.

Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for literature, an honour that has usually been associated with poets and novelists. But the academy handed Dylan the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Dylan failed to attend the December ceremony, citing previous commitments. In a speech read on his behalf, he said it was "truly beyond words" and he thought his odds of winning were as likely "standing on the moon".

Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel Prize, months after ceremony - BBC News