Bob Dylan collects Nobel Prize award

[Music] Bob Dylan is one of the best-selling artists of all time he's recorded more than 60 albums and sold more than a hundred million copies and at 75 he's still drawing crowds Sweden is the latest stop and his so-called never-ending tour that started back in the late 1980s allowing the Swedish Academy to finally give him the Nobel Prize for Literature in a private ceremony in Stockholm I think privates okay the prize is a is a massive thing and so obviously the media people want to know about it but if you're a person who doesn't like the attention then doing it in private seems fine and how many Dylan is well-known for shunning the limelight before he sleeps and this and and really speaks of his success all the inspiration for his songs I don't really attach any other great importance to it other than the fact that it did I do it and some people show up to see me Dylan is the first songwriter to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature what judges called new poetic expressions in the tradition of American song anyone morning the Sun was shattered she was learning there and over more than half a century he has written hundreds making him one of the most influential artists in popular music and culture some criticized the decision to award Dylan the prize saying it takes away from traditional writers of poetry and prose but the Nobel Committee has a tradition of pushing the boundaries awarding the prize in 1953 to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his oratory Dylan has picked up 11 Grammys a Golden Globe and an Academy Award along the way and in 2012 he received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom From President Barack Obama he's also published seven books of drawings and paintings and been exhibited in major art galleries Dylan must deliver a Nobel lecture on any topic before he gets his almost 1 million dollar prize money he has three months to do that something the 75 year old will have to fit around dates on his never-ending tour midian de hond al Jazeera

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Length: 2min 36sec (156 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 01 2017