“We’re really giving it to Bob Dylan as a great poet – that’s the reason we awarded him the prize. We enjoy [their] poetry, and I think Bob Dylan deserves to be read as a poet.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Don’t Look Back’, Bob Dylan, 1967 Photograph: Everett/Rex/ShutterstockBorn Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941, Dylan got his first guitar at the age of 14 and performed in rock’n’roll bands in high school. He adopted the name Dylan, after the poet Dylan Thomas, and, drawn to the music of Woody Guthrie, began to perform folk music. Among the musical, literary and even academic communities, respected figures expressed their delight at Dylan’s Nobel prize. “The frontiers of literature keep widening, and it’s exciting that the Nobel prize recognises that,” Rushdie said.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 11:14 UTC