[1] Nobel Committee: Bob Dylan ‘Changed Our Idea of What Poetry Can Be’
[2] If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don’t write, they dance
[3] and they sing,” Swedish Academy say in award speech
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[5] Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden Saturday,
[6] where the Swedish Academy’s Horace Engdahl explained in the presentation speech why the legendary singer-
[7] -songwriter was given an award usually reserved for authors, poets and playwrights.
[8] In the speech, Engdahl said Dylan “dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular
[9] music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest
[10] songs, country, blues, early rock, gospel, mainstream music.”
[11] “Recognizing that revolution by awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was a decision that seemed daring
[12] only beforehand and already seems obvious. But does he get the prize for upsetting the system of literature?
[13] Not really,” Engdahl said. “There is a simpler explanation, one that we share with all those who stand with be-
[14] ating hearts in front of the stage at one of the venues on his never-ending tour, waiting for that magical voice.”
[15] The Swedish Academy concluded their speech by taking note of the critics who opposed Dylan’s Nobel
[16] Prize win.
[17] “By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work,”
[18] Engdahl said. “If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don’t write, they dance
[19] and they sing.”
[20] Following the speech, Patti Smith performed Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
[21] Read the Nobel committee’s award presentation speech for Dylan below:
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