American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature last week for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan is the first singer-songwriter to win the award.
Dylan began his music career as an acoustic singer-songwriter. His first album was the eponymous “Bob Dylan” released in 1962. He once told Rolling Stone magazine: “I live in my dreams. I don’t really live in the actual world.”
Dylan held a concert at the Taipei Arena in 2011. His works have had a profound impact on music, culture and politics. People like Cloud Gate Dance Theatre founder Lin Hwai-min, poet Yu Kwang-chung and writer Chiang Xun have all been inpired by Dylan. Taiwanese singer Jonathan Lee, who has been influenced by him, says he was “absolutely thrilled” by the news.
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(CNA, translated by Eddy Chang)
美國創作歌手巴布狄倫，上週獲頒二○一六年諾貝爾文學獎，得獎原因是︰「在美國歌曲的偉大傳統裡，創造新的詩意表現手法。」狄倫是首位獲獎的創作歌手。
狄倫以原聲創作歌手身分展開音樂事業，首張同名專輯「巴布狄倫」在一九六二年發行。他曾告訴「滾石」雜誌：「我活在自己的夢中，而非真正地活在現實世界裡。」
狄倫曾在二○一一年於台北小巨蛋舉行演唱會，他的作品深入音樂、文化、政治各個層面。雲門舞集創辦人林懷民、詩人余光中、作家蔣勳等人都受其影響，也受其影響的台灣歌手李宗盛聞訊後則說「萬分激動」。
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