{"id":32465,"date":"2016-10-13T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=32465"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:23:23","slug":"bob-dylan-awarded-2016-nobel-prize-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/bob-dylan-awarded-2016-nobel-prize-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 American singer, songwriter and New Orleans resident Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32466\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32466\" class=\"wp-image-32466 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MARCH 23, 1975:  Singer\/Songwriter Bob Dylan performs at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California, March 23, 1975.  (Photo by Alvan Meyerowitz\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32466\" class=\"wp-image-32466 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MARCH 23, 1975:  Singer\/Songwriter Bob Dylan performs at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California, March 23, 1975.  (Photo by Alvan Meyerowitz\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-32466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Dylan performing at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dylan,75, was recognized for \u201chaving created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,\u201d the Swedish Academy, which is responsible for choosing the Nobel laureates in literature, announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised Jewish in Minnesota, Dylan wrote some of the most influential and well-known songs of the 1960s. His hits include \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind,\u201d \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d and \u201cTimes They Are a-Changin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among his many honors are an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his original song &#8220;Things Have Changed&#8221; from the movie &#8220;Wonder Boys,&#8221; 12 Grammy Awards including one for Lifetime Achievement and a 1988 induction into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame. Dylan received Kennedy Center Honors in 1997 and was also awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan is the first American to receive the prize in more than 20 years; novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993. He will receive the $927,740 prize in Stockholm on Dec. 10, which is Alfred Nobel\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Bob%20Dylan%20awarded%202016%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Literature\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7137],"tags":[4491,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32467,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465\/revisions\/32467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}