Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

"No one can nominate himself or herself. Winners must be living; Nobel prizes are never given posthumously. In general, Nobel award winners are individuals whose work is disruptive in terms of influence on others working in the field and, especially, outside of the field."

There are a couple exceptions to the postumous award rule.

Posthumous Nobel Prizes
From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Before 1974, the Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: to Dag Hammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931).

Following the 2011 announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, it was discovered that one of the Medicine Laureates, Ralph Steinman, had passed away three days earlier. The Board of the Nobel Foundation examined the statutes, and an interpretation of the purpose of the rule above led to the conclusion that Ralph Steinman should continue to remain a Nobel Laureate, as the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet had announced the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine without knowing of his death.

At the Nobel ceremony today Patti Smith sang A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall and accepted the award.

It looks like it's time for a Bob Dylan interview. Yeah.

https://youtu.be/DcPoZZVm3Dk

As always the Nobel committee is right on top of it.

 
mapman OP
13,766 posts
10-13-2016 11:18am
Geof from what I've read I suspect one thing we would agree on is admiration for Bob Dylan.

You probably need to watch Don't Look Back again.

;-)

Dylan and John Lennon in a cab.  Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/jSlZvfsWdOc

I missed Dylan’s recent album of Frank Sinatra covers. Maybe the Nobel committee can consider recognizing Ol Blue Eyes the next time around.

But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

I met Paul Clayton, Dylan's best friend in the early days in NYC, a singer of Sailing Songs, American music and dulcimer player and whom Dylan mentions in Chronickes, in Charlottesville way back when.

Another good Dylan YouTube video coming up.....

https://youtu.be/Oj2CPqX-tLc

Cheers

The classic Dylan interview with the dude from Time magazine is timeless...

https://youtu.be/mnl5X5MQKTg

bdp24
1,596 posts
10-15-2016 6:37pm
Geoff, remember, Sinatra didn't write any of the songs he sang. Kinda hard to give him an award for literature, no?

Good catch. Sadly for Sinatra he doesn't meet the must be still alive standard of the august Nobel committee.

inna
2,764 posts
10-14-2016 6:57pm
Debily, blyad'

Vlad the Impaler, hi Lily hi Lilly hi lo!

Lil Debbie

Actually the more I think about it Dylan is probably more deserving of the Nobel prose than he was of the Pulitzer Prize.

tootles

"Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye princes, and prepare the shield./For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth./And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed./...And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground."

~ Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9

the last stanza of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower,

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl

;-)

dgarretson
1,994 posts
10-19-2016 3:51pm
If civilization survives to Y4K and historians remember the 20th century, they will likely underscore the significance of the counter-culture and its music that reified social and political currents during the first war lost by the USA. Dylan will be remembered above all other writers in this context.

Ironically perhaps Dylan would be the first to disagree with the counter-culture connection. Or being labeled a folk singer or representing the anti war movement or singing songs about or representing the counter-culture.

The only person who didn't accept the Nobel prize so far was Sartre. If Dylan is smart he won't accept the prize either.  

 
oblgny
381 posts
10-24-2016 9:43pm
I kinda think it's cool that he's gotten it.

We cant "knight" him, after all.

We gave him the Pulitzer a few years ago. That should suffice.