Dylan at odds with prizes__ 2011-14-16

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature 

for 'poetic expressions'

13 October 2016 

video :  https://www.france24.com/en/20161013-usa-bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-literatur

Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him the only singer-songwriter to win the award.

More than 50 years on, Dylan is still writing songs and is often on tour, performing his dense poetic lyrics, sung in a sometimes rasping voice that has been ridiculed by detractors.

song: THe times they are a-changin'.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxvVk-r9ut8

For the times they are a-changin'.    
Come mothers and fathers                  Throughout the land
And don't criticize                                 What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters            Are beyond your command
Your old road is                                    Rapidly agin'.

BY HIMSELF:  webpage

https://www.bobdylan.com/news/qa-with-bill-flanagan/

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Nobel Odds: Long and Short

 October 4  2016  by I. Crouch

 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/nobel-odds-long-and-short

The Imposter: Bob Dylan, at this late stage in his career, has become a kind of cultural Zelig, his name or face appearing in any number of unlikely places.

•  First he’s winning an Oscar,
•  then a Pulitzer;
• next he’s caught cribbing lyrics to his records from Japanese novels and nineteenth-century poems;
• France’s Legion d’Honneur in 2013
• later he angers the left by playing in China.

  Just last week, as Ben Greenman notes, many of his paintings now on display at the Gagosian Galley in New York were identified as being “inspired by” other works of art.
 Now he’s shot up on this season’s Ladbrokes odds list. Poet, painter, Nobel winner? Most surely no, though, perhaps on name recognition alone, he is getting some action from gamblers.

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Infographic: Bob Dylan by the numbers

November 20, 2014

 

https://www.wework.com/es-ES/creator/city-guide/infographic-bob-dylan-numbers/   

• Shapeshifter, hell raiser, voice of a generation: Bob Dylan is all those things, but he’s also the shrewd mind behind one of the more sustainable and successful careers in American popular culture, still going strong long after most of his peers have faded away. 

• Celebrating the release this month of his legendary Basement Tapes, 47 years after they were originally recorded, here is Dylan, the man and the brand, by the numbers:

TO SEE GRAPH, scroll down)

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BOB DYLAN LANDS NOBEL PRIZE FIVE YEARS AFTER MASSIVE GAMBLE

Singer-songwriter has finally bagged the award

13 October 2016

The 16/1 shot Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature five years after a worldwide gamble on the iconic singer-songwriter. 

The American was the subject of a sensational punt in 2011 which saw his odds slashed from 100/1 to 10/1, although this time round our traders reported significantly less speculation with only two bets struck for Dylan on the day prior to the result.

In total, only 47 literary bettors correctly predicted the result, leading to Dylan’s odds contracting from 50/1 to 16/1 in the week leading up to the announcement.

https://news.ladbrokes.com/novelty/bob-dylan-lands-nobel-prize-five-years-after-massive-gamble.html  

 

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