{"id":16620,"date":"2016-10-13T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16620"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:42:12","slug":"nobel-prize-literature-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nobel-prize-literature-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The Nobel Prize in Literature for year 2016 has been given to\u2026 .<\/strong><br \/>\na) Bob Dylan<br \/>\nb) Svetlana Alexievich<br \/>\nc) Patrick Modiano<br \/>\nd) None of the above.<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 13th October, 2016 The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 has been awarded to Bob Dylan &#8220;for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in a Jewish middleclass family in the city of Hibbing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">His productivity continued in the following decades, resulting in masterpieces like Oh Mercy (1989), Time Out Of Mind (1997) and Modern Times (2006).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an artist, Bob is strikingly versatile; he has been active as painter, actor and scriptwriter.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2016\/bio-bibl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2016\/bio-bibl.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The Nobel Prize in Literature for year 2016 has been given to\u2026 . 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 &#8220;for having created new poetic expressions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-16620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}