Thursday, 24 April 2008

Dylan Knockin' on Pulitzer's Door

Dylan Knockin' on Pulitzer's Door




Mr. Tambourine Man is now Mr. Joseph Pulitzer Prize Proprietor.Bob Dylan has get the first gear rock 'n' roller to be honored with the prestigious award, which recognizes top achievement in journalism, literature, drama and, of course, musical theater accomplishment.The 92nd Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced Monday by Columbia University; Dylan received an honorary Joseph Pulitzer for "his profound impact on popular music and American refinement, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic office."The multiplication they ar a-changin'—this year marked the first-class honours degree time the members of the Joseph Pulitzer Prize Table went exterior their comfort zone of classical and wind medicine.(For those keeping scotch at family, the music laurels went to classical music composer Jacques Louis David Lang for The Little Match Girl Heat, and the verse prize was shared by U.S. poet laureate Robert Haas for his National Script Award victor Time and Materials and Phillip Schultz for Bankruptcy.)Bob Dylan could not be reached for scuttlebutt.No dubiousness the Joseph Pulitzer will look nice on the rock troubadour's mantle next to, among other honors, his Academy Award, Golden Orb, 10 Grammys and Hall of Fame plaques for the Rock and Roll and Songwriters shrines.Dylan, whose chameleon-like persona was the groundwork for finale year's critically acclaimed I'm Not On that point, released his end album, Modern Times, in 2006, simply continues to tour regularly. He is workings on the second installment of a planned three-book serial of memoirs looking back at his aliveness and 40-year career.





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