The Nobel prize for Literature is awarded to the singer Bob Dylan – EBC

Image file 1984 shows the singer and american composer Bob Dylan performing at the stadium St. Jakob-Park, Basel, SwitzerlandFile Keyston/Agência Lusa/direitos reservados

The Nobel prize for Literature 2016 has been awarded to Bob Dylan, for having created new forms of expression poetic in the framework of the great tradition of american music, announced today (13) the Swedish Academy.

Bob Dylan is the stage name of Robert Allen Zimmerman, born may 24, 1941 – composer, singer, painter, actor and american writer.

Born in the state of Minnesota, the grandson of jewish immigrants from Russian, age

10 Dylan wrote his first poems and, still a teenager, he learned piano and guitar alone. Started singing in rock groups, imitating Little Richard and Buddy Holly, but when you went to the University of Minnesota in 1959, he turned to folk music, impressed with the musical works of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was visiting in New York in 1961.

In 2004, he was elected by the magazine Rolling Stone the seventh greatest singer of all time and, by the same magazine, the second best song artist of all time, behind only the Beatles. One of their main songs, Like a Rolling Stone, was chosen as one of the best of all time.

In 2012, Dylan was awarded the Medal of Freedom by United States president Barack Obama.

*With information from the Lusa news Agency

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