{"id":24570,"date":"2016-10-13T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=24570"},"modified":"2016-10-13T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:02:37","slug":"legend-bob-dylan-gets-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/legend-bob-dylan-gets-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend Bob Dylan gets Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">American music legend Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dylan, 75, was honoured &#8220;for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,&#8221; the Swedish Academy said.The choice was met by gasps and a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24572\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bob.jpg\" alt=\"bob\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The folk singer has been mentioned in Nobel speculation in past years, but was never seen as a serious contender.The Academy&#8217;s permanent secretary Sara Danius said Dylan&#8217;s songs were &#8220;poetry for the ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nobel award is the latest accolade for a singer who has come a long way from his humble beginnings as Robert Allen Zimmerman, born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, who taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and piano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24573\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BobDylanearly1960s.jpg\" alt=\"BobDylanearly1960s\" width=\"712\" height=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the prize went to Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich, for her documentary-style narratives based on witness testimonies.Dylan will take home the eight million kronor ($906,000 or 822,000 euros) prize sum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The literature award caps the 2016 Nobel season, following more than a week of announcements for the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace, with the latter going to Colombia&#8217;s President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end a half-century war with the FARC rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American music legend Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers. Dylan, 75, was honoured &#8220;for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,&#8221; the Swedish Academy said.The choice was met by gasps and a long round of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,2],"tags":[9570,9569,9571,9573,9572],"class_list":["post-24570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-american-music-legend","tag-bob-dylan","tag-nobel-literature-prize","tag-poetry-for-the-ears","tag-swedish-academy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/boby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}