Bob Dylan will formally receive his Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm, Sweden this weekend:
"The Swedish Academy is very much looking forward to the weekend and will show up at one of the performances," Nobel spokesperson Sara Danius wrote in a statement Wednesday. "The good news is that the Swedish Academy and Bob Dylan have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan's Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature. The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan's wishes."
He will deliver a taped lecture at some point later.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:48AM (3 children)
You seem to be awarding a prize for literature. May I suggest Dylan Thomas?📎👀
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:38AM
That would be nice ... were he alive [nobelprize.org].
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 01 2017, @03:38PM
And while we're at it, nominate Dylann Roof and Dylan Klebold for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hey, if Obama got it, they sure can!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @05:49AM
Go away, you paper clip! No one likes you!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 01 2017, @09:45AM (1 child)
Why is this in the "Rehash" topic? Was the software running this site somehow involved in that event?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by charon on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:56PM
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:02AM (1 child)
He never really seemed all that happy about getting the prize. Sort of like he didn't care. So this, a taped lecture, seems like the least amount of effort involved to collect the million bucks.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @11:25AM
It's true that Bob begged out of the initial ceremony. However, he wrote a thoughtful letter to the Nobel committee and arranged for the US Ambassador to Sweden to read it at the banquet. She must have practiced, because it came off with only one or two slight stumbles. Video on the Nobel site, there is a "Play" button on this introductory page,
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html [nobelprize.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @01:35PM (5 children)
Why give it to him at all? If the arrogant prick doesn't want it, re-award it to someone else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)
Listen to the letter read at the Nobel banquet (linked above) -- where did you get the idea that he didn't want the prize? He was initially blown away and it took awhile to sink in -- you might be too if something like this fell in your inbox one day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @04:19PM
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Saturday April 01 2017, @03:03PM (1 child)
Certainly not for the quality of music he's been playing these past decades. Amazing songwriter but hearing him perform anymore is terrible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @10:32PM
Must depend on the ear of the beholder, I like his recent albums like Modern Times and Together Through Life.
His latest is covers of "standards" as originally done by Frank Sinatra and others from that era, that one might not be for me. But this interview about it is eye-opening, https://bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/ [bobdylan.com] They discuss a lot of details and it is a little hard to believe that anyone could get Dylan to open up to that extent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @04:04AM
They couldn't find a jewish writer so went for a musician instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @08:09AM
Maybe it's just me, but every time I've tried to listen to Dylan, I didn't see what everyone raves about. If it's lyrics/songwriting, can someone point me to some examples where this is on display? I'd like to give the guys a fair chance, and that seems like a reasonable way.
I feel like I'm somehow missing "the meat", and don't really know how to find it.