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Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Published: 13 October 2016

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". ()

Merve Emre, Department of English, 苹果淫院

鈥淔or many Bob Dylan is a surprising choice; he is the first singer-songwriter to win the prize since Rabindranath Tagore in 1913. But the decision is less surprising when one considers the intimate relationship between the balladic tradition and poetry.鈥鈥擬erve Emre

She鈥檚 an assistant professor of English. Her areas of research are American fiction and contemporary novels. She鈥檚 currently writing a book on the history of personality testing.

merve [dot] emre [at] mcgill [dot] ca (English)

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