

Read the Nobel Banquet speech by Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, given by the US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji: /dhE3nPdprP- The Nobel Prize December 10, 2016 That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.” “These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. “From an early age, I’ve been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway,” the speech said. In his absence, Azita Raji, the US ambassador to Sweden, delivered a speech from Dylan at the Nobel banquet, according to the website of the Nobel Prize. What a moving performance by soloist Patti Smith of Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall.Posted by Nobel Prize on Saturday, December 10, 2016ĭylan, 75, is the first songwriter to win a Nobel Prize.
