Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize mention deleted from his website

Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/10/16

[Eleutheria5]

JTA - The fallout from Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature has taken a strange turn: The Jewish folk singer’s website has taken down its only brief mention of the award.

Dylan has not acknowledged the award at any of his performances in the week since the Nobel committee’s Oct. 13 announcement, but his website made one allusion to it this week on a page promoting a new collection of his lyrics, “The Lyrics: 1961: 2012.” The page on bobdylan.com simply called him the “winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.”

As of Friday morning, the reference has been erased without explanation.

The Swedish Academy has tried and failed multiple times to contact Dylan through close associates of his since the award announcement. Sara Danius, the Nobel academy’s secretary, told Swedish radio on Monday that the academy has given up attempting to contact him and could not confirm whether he would attend the award ceremony in Stockholm on Nov. 10.

Numerous publications have noted that celebrities often do not control the content of their public websites, so it is conceivable that Dylan had no input about the award’s mention on his site.

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[exDemMom]

The Nobel prize can only be awarded to someone who is alive. I don’t know who David Brubeck is/was, but everyone else on your list has passed away.

[exDemMom]

When Yassir “That’s My Baby” Arafat, the godfather of modern islamic terrorism, received a Nobel Piece Prize, it marked the final nail in its coffin.

It is the Nobel Peace Prize, not the Nobel Piece Prize.

One could argue that Arafat left things in pieces in his wake, but that does not change the fact that the prize is intended to honor peace, not the ability to reduce people and property to pieces.

[newfreep]

The classic jazz album with the classic hit "Take 5"

[newfreep]

It is the Nobel Peace Prize, not the Nobel Piece Prize.

I used "Piece" as in the islamic Religion of "Piece"

[KevinB]

The Byrds’ cover of “My Back Pages” is one of my all time favorite songs as is Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone”.

Hell, Dylan should have won a Nobel prize for "Tangled Up In Blue" alone.

[fella]

Positively 4th Street seems to be appropriate right about here, especially the last line.

[waterhill]

yes.

I remember doing a term paper on Bob Dylan. Never really listened to him or realized his full library until then. Been hooked ever since.

[OwenKellogg]

[Moltke]

Perhaps he does not like to be associated with that other Nobel literature laureate, Winston Churchill?

[HARRY TUTTLE]

It seems odd that a person who feels this way about Dylan would post this article. Would like to know who else (Lennon really?) you feel is more accomplished?

[maro]

It would funny if Trump took over this organization. “The Trump Nobel Prize.” Open televized competition.

[billorites]

"What do you base that on?"

I stand corrected. Apologies to all.

[Eleutheria5]

Right now I’m into Brubeck, and the more I hear of his recordings, the more I esteem him. I didn’t say that Dylan was a bad artist. Like him or hate him, he was a major songwriter, who influenced those whom I list as as good as or better than him, especially Johnny Cash who performed several of his songs.