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nobel prize
Avram Hershko Talks Cancer Research, Winning the Nobel and His Grandchildren
Q&A with Barry Barish on His Nobel Prize — and Why He Never Wrote That Novel
Bob Dylan speech at Nobel: Never had time to ask myself if my songs were literature
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan said in a speech read at the Nobel Prize awards presentation that he “never could have imagined” that he would receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Faith and doubt: S.Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize, 50 years later
On Dec. 10, 1966, Shabbat in Stockholm ended at 3:55 p.m. This gave Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon; his wife, Esther; and their daughter, Emunah, exactly 35 minutes to travel from the Grand Hotel to the Stockholm Concert Hall, where Agnon would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Report: Bob Dylan still has not mentioned Nobel Prize
American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan has not been in contact with the Swedish Academy since it awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature last week.
Bob Dylan and Philip Roth bring it all back home
As a fan who runs the “Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Jews” website, I should be ecstatic at the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to the writer whose words have been the soundtrack to my life since I first sang them at a Jewish summer camp some 40-odd years ago.