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Bob Dylan's Nobel lecture now available in print version

DPA LIFE
Published November 01,2017
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The award lecture given by Bob Dylan, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, is now available in a print edition, US publisher Simon & Schuster said.

The lecture was initially delivered as an audio recording in June.

The 32-page print version includes a special limited edition of 100 signed copies that each will sell for 2,500 dollars, the publisher said.

An unsigned version sells for about 17 dollars.

"The speech is extraordinary," the academy's permanent secretary Sara Danius said in a June statement.

The academy cited Dylan, 76, in October 2016 for creating "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

In the lecture, Dylan describes books and music that influenced his life.

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Homer's "The Odyssey" were three books that had stuck with him ever since he read them "way back in grammar school," he said in the talk.

In April, Dylan accepted his Nobel medal and diploma at a private ceremony in connection with a visit to Stockholm for two sold-out concerts in the Swedish capital.

The literature prize is one of the awards endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

The Nobel awards are traditionally presented on December 10, marking the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896 but Dylan was unable to attend in 2016.