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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Wall Street Journal
Published on Oct 13, 2016
U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Photo: Getty
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Wall Street Journal
Published on Oct 13, 2016
U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Photo: Getty
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Why Dylan deserves the prize
Here’s a transcript of Sara Danius’s Q&A. Could the subtext be that this is Sweden’s way of marking the passing of David Bowie?
Q: Does BD really deserve the prize?
Danius: Of course he does, he just got it. He is a great poet. He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition and he is a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler, he embodies the tradition and for 55, 54 years now he’s been at it and re-inventing himself constantly. Re-inventing himself creating a new identity.
Q: Have you talked to him today?
Danius: No, I haven’t. I will afterwards.
Q: He’s not a person who is nice and smiley when he gets awards. That doesn’t worry you?
Danius: No, I think I have a good message.
Q: Do you have personal favourites among his songs?
Danius: I think if you want to start listening, or reading, you may start with Blonde on Blonde, the album from 1966. You’ve got many classics and it’s an extraordinary example of his brilliant way of rhyming and putting together refrains and his pictorial thinking.
Q: He’s not written novels, not poetry in the usual sense, you have widened the horizon.
Danius: It may look that way but really we haven’t in a way if you look back, far back, 2500 years or so, you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to. They were meant to be performed, often together with instruments, and it’s the same way with Bob Dylan. But we still read Homer and Sappho and we enjoyed it [sic], we enjoy it and the same thing with Bob Dylan he can be read and should be read and he is a great poet in the English tradition, in the grand English poetic tradition.
Q: Do you think there will be criticism against this prize?
Danius: I hope not [smiles].
Q: When you were young and into pop rock music, which I guess you were, did you listen a lot to Bob Dylan?
Danius: Not really, but he was always around, so I know the music. I’ve started to appreciate him much more now than I did. I was a big David Bowie fan. Perhaps it is a question of generation, I don’t know. But today I’m a lover of Bob Dylan.
Here’s a transcript of Sara Danius’s Q&A. Could the subtext be that this is Sweden’s way of marking the passing of David Bowie?
Q: Does BD really deserve the prize?
Danius: Of course he does, he just got it. He is a great poet. He is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition and he is a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler, he embodies the tradition and for 55, 54 years now he’s been at it and re-inventing himself constantly. Re-inventing himself creating a new identity.
Q: Have you talked to him today?
Danius: No, I haven’t. I will afterwards.
Q: He’s not a person who is nice and smiley when he gets awards. That doesn’t worry you?
Danius: No, I think I have a good message.
Q: Do you have personal favourites among his songs?
Danius: I think if you want to start listening, or reading, you may start with Blonde on Blonde, the album from 1966. You’ve got many classics and it’s an extraordinary example of his brilliant way of rhyming and putting together refrains and his pictorial thinking.
Q: He’s not written novels, not poetry in the usual sense, you have widened the horizon.
Danius: It may look that way but really we haven’t in a way if you look back, far back, 2500 years or so, you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to. They were meant to be performed, often together with instruments, and it’s the same way with Bob Dylan. But we still read Homer and Sappho and we enjoyed it [sic], we enjoy it and the same thing with Bob Dylan he can be read and should be read and he is a great poet in the English tradition, in the grand English poetic tradition.
Q: Do you think there will be criticism against this prize?
Danius: I hope not [smiles].
Q: When you were young and into pop rock music, which I guess you were, did you listen a lot to Bob Dylan?
Danius: Not really, but he was always around, so I know the music. I’ve started to appreciate him much more now than I did. I was a big David Bowie fan. Perhaps it is a question of generation, I don’t know. But today I’m a lover of Bob Dylan.
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