Bob Dylan, the poet laureate of the Rock era
Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". The announcement was made on October 13, 2016, making him the first singer to receive the prestigious award. Dylan eventually accepted the prize in a private ceremony in Stockholm in 2017 and delivered a Nobel lecture where he explored the relationship between his songs and literature. By accepting this prize, Bob Dylan pay tribute to a long list of poets-singers such as Jim Morrison, Lana Del Rey, John Lennon, David Berman, Leonard Cohen, Henry Rollins, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Lou Reed, Maya Angelou and others who continue to write hundreds of texts from the epic Greek lyric poetry usually accompanied by a kithara, to the confessional poets of the 1950s and 1960s, who included Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
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