Question: The Nobel Prize in Literature for year 2016 has been given to… .
a) Bob Dylan
b) Svetlana Alexievich
c) Patrick Modiano
d) None of the above.
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- On 13th October, 2016 The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 has been awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
- Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middleclass family in the city of Hibbing.
- As a teenager he played in various bands. With time his interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues.
- One of his idols was the folk singer Woody Guthrie. He was also influenced by the early authors of the Beat Generation, as well as by modernist poets.
- He signed a contract with record producer John Hammond for his debut album, called Bob Dylan (1962). In the following years he recorded a number of albums had impact on popular music and brought him fame: Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, Blonde On Blonde in 1966 and Blood On The Tracks in 1975.
- His productivity continued in the following decades, resulting in masterpieces like Oh Mercy (1989), Time Out Of Mind (1997) and Modern Times (2006).
- As an artist, Bob is strikingly versatile; he has been active as painter, actor and scriptwriter.
- He has written the autobiography Chronicles (2004), which depicts memories from the early years in New York and provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture.
Reference:
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/bio-bibl.pdf