Sunday, October 16, 2016

Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

Following the announcement, Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, was interviewed by freelance journalist Sven Hugo Persson about the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan. She said:
"He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition"


http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/announcement.html

Here two masterpieces to start with: Blowin' in the Wind and Like a Rolling Stone

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