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08/04/2008

Dylan’s Pulitzer Prize: at last!

Yesterday’s announcement of the award to Dylan of a Pulitzer Price Special Citation provoked a simple response here at The Dylan Daily: at last!

Dylan’s citation is for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power”. Pulitzer Prizes, organized by New York’s prestigious Columbia University, are awarded for excellence in “Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music”. Dylan is the first rock musician to be honoured.

To this non-American, a “Pulitzer” is an elite badge of honour, a recognition of the highest achievement by a writer. Dylan’s is long overdue – his writing has had more impact on more people than the 21 other 2008 prize recipients combined.

The awards will be presented at Columbia on 29 May – when the recipient will be somewhere between Odense, Denmark and Stavanger, Norway at the start of his European tour.



Gerry Smith

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