US songwriter Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize
Dylan is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award
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US songwriter Bob Dylan on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that surprised prize watchers.
Producer of Dylan and Johnny Cash dies at 83
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
A draft of the lyrics for Bob Dylan’s protest song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall was up for auction in London fetched up to 200,000 pounds ($314,000), last year.
Bob Dylan’s lyrics gonna be auctioned
The typewritten manuscript, with the date 1962, contains many scribbled revisions and scratching-outs to the song that Dylan recorded in December 1962 and released on the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan the following year.
A 2014 auction of Dylan’s 1965 original handwritten lyrics for Like a Rolling Stone fetched just over $2 million at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a record for a rock music manuscript.
Producer of Dylan and Johnny Cash dies at 83
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
A draft of the lyrics for Bob Dylan’s protest song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall was up for auction in London fetched up to 200,000 pounds ($314,000), last year.
Bob Dylan’s lyrics gonna be auctioned
The typewritten manuscript, with the date 1962, contains many scribbled revisions and scratching-outs to the song that Dylan recorded in December 1962 and released on the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan the following year.
A 2014 auction of Dylan’s 1965 original handwritten lyrics for Like a Rolling Stone fetched just over $2 million at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a record for a rock music manuscript.