Stockholm (AFP) – US music legend Bob Dylan, whose poetic lyrics have influenced generations of fans, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the first songwriter to win the award in a decision that stunned prize watchers.
The 75-year-old was honoured “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, the Swedish Academy said.
The choice was met by gasps and a long round of spontaneous applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. The folk rock singer had been mentioned in Nobel speculation over the years, but was never seen as a serious contender.
The Academy’s permanent secretary Sara Danius said Dylan’s songs were “poetry for the ears” while acknowledging that some might find Dylan a “strange” choice.
[…] US President Barack Obama also tweeted his congratulations to Dylan, whom he called “one of my favourite poets”.
SNIP: Of course he did.
I’m sorry, but i hate this guy. I promise you he signed a contract with satan or something. Just a whiny little nose singing hippy.
If there was any doubt about the lack of worth of one of these crackerjack prizes, that was settled when barky and liverlips jimmy f carter got theirs. So this don’t surprise me.
The poet sings, the creature flies unto unbounded trials
He stops to watch where all is found and on he goes for miles
The politician cries for more and is never satisfied
But still I sing about love and life and why the lizard cried
There. Can I have a noel prize?
Or maybe a Nobel prize?
I guess Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan’s real name for those too young to know) and Barry Soetro (one of Barack Hussein obama’s names) can wear olive branch headpieces and walk hand in hand into the liberal hall of shame.
The credibility of the Nobel prize committee is blowin in the wind.
One other thing. Dylan made his name singing about THE MAN, meaning the government. Now he’s part of government’s official oligarchy.
Oh The Uproar when it was discovered he owns oil wells and the controlling interest in a bunch of banks..Then the info and the uproar all went away..
…And the times they are a-changin’.
If you thought Dylan couldn’t sing in the 70s and 80s, he hasn’t aged too gracefully – at all. He now has pretty much no voice at all, more like a mild grumble.
– Though I am glad I went to his concert.
I cant help about the shape I’m in;
I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin.
But don’t ask me what I think of you…
Ingrates.
Well………it’s not as bad as the Obama pick.
A poet who can’t sing well is better than a president who can’t do anything well.
aww the 60’s bob- Janis Joplin-Jefferson airplane- I used to get high and make poems but I never thought I would win the prize– they give it to anyone now a days-for stupid stuff. plus I never liked him or his voice.
Billy Fuster
I give ya three Noells and 2 Nobells
cuz your just Swell
annie Go Trump
‘“Can I view thee panting, lying
On thy stomach, without sighing;
Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log
Expiring frog!”’
‘“Say, have fiends in shape of boys,
With wild halloo, and brutal noise,
Hunted thee from marshy joys,
With a dog,
Expiring frog!”’
Some of you people need a history lesson !
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rolling-stone-desperately-tries-and-fails-to-get-bob-dylan-to-profess-love-for-obama/
I have never understood a word he has said. I also loathe him.
Do conservative republicans ever win a Nobel?
I’ll bet not.
It’s a liberal circle jerk club
I don’t care what anyone says I still like Bob Dylan, so there. All except for his song about Ruben “Hurricane” Carter back in the 70’s, that’s another song we can do without. I gave away all my Bob Dylan albums years ago but I still listen to him occasionally although not as much as when I was in my 20’s and 30’s. And besides my granddaughter (she’s a little cutie) Dylan Jean may or may not be named in his honor depending on what my son was thinking when he named her.
Thanks for posting that, Sarge. At one time Dylan converted to Christianity, don’t know if it took, though. I have liked some of his stuff, including his time with the Traveling Willburys, other stuff not as much. A lot of his songs were done by other artists who did a better job of singing, but he was primarily a lyricist.
@geoff.
Song about hurricane makes Zimmerman a founding father of the black lives matter hoax. Justizzzz is just a joke.
donovan was a much better poet……but he’s been forgotten…..
“on a firefly platform on sunny Goodge Street,
a violent hash-smoker shook a chocolate machine….
involved in an eating scene”
you can SEE that happening…dylan?….not so much…..just a bunch of pretentious stream of consciousness garbage…..
but what the hell, it’s the NOBEL people…..who gives a shit?