Nobel Prize in Literature received by American performer Bob Dylan

Today was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016. They became an American artist, writer and performer Bob Dylan . For five decades, he was a cult figure of classical rock music, and his songs at one time became the anthems of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement in the United States.

The Nobel Prize was awarded with the wording “for the creation of new poetic movements within the framework of the great American song tradition”. Together with her, Dylan received 8 million Swedish crowns (about 933.6 thousand US dollars at the current exchange rate).

This award is not the first recognition of the merits of Dylan of this level. In 2001, he won the Oscar for the song “Things Have Changed” for the film “Geeks”. In 2008, the performer received a special Pulitzer Prize prize with approximately the same wording as the Nobel Prize: “for its outstanding influence on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of exceptional poetic power”.
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In 2015, Bob Dylan was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But then this prestigious award went to the writer from Belarus Svetlana Alexievich with the wording: “for her many-voiced creativity - a monument to the suffering and courage in our time”. The main works of Aleksiyevich are books “A non-female face in a war” about participants in hostilities of the times of the Great Patriotic War and “Zinc boys” - about the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan and its consequences for participants and their families.

The most recognizable composition of Dylan can be called his 1962 song “House of the Rising Sun” . Also, this composition is well known to the masses in the performance of the British team The Animals , which they quail two years after the original was released.

At the end of the twentieth century, which led the magazine Times, Dylan is included in the hundred most influential people of the century. Also the name of one of his songs - “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest”, in the late sixties served as a source of inspiration for a young British band playing in the style of “progressive blues”, as they called it. Today this team is known as “Judas Priest”.