Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas ?

The answer is not blowing in the wind anymore ! Bob Dylan has just got The 2016 Nobel Literature Prize ! This 75-year-old American rock legend receives the Nobel Prize " for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." 

Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy said, Dylan had been chosen because he was " a great poet in the English-speaking tradition. For 54 years now he has been at it reinventing himself,constantly creating a new identity." She told reporters in Stockholm.

 President Barrack Obama wrote on Twitter  : " Congratulations to one of my favorite poets."By the way,do you know who was Robert Zimmerman's or Bob Dylan's favorite poet and influence ? Why do people say, Bob Dylan's poetry can be seen as a sort of evolution of Dylan Thomas' work ? Which themes do the Welsh poet and this American  songwriter have in common ?

Click on the links below the pictures to get more information about this great Nobel Prize winner ,to listen to one of  Bob Dylan's greatest hit " Blowing in the wind "and to answer the questions above  easily too ,ok ?

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621

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 http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/blowininthewind.html

 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-voted-into-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters-20130312

 https://pencils.com/how-dylan-thomas-influenced-bob-dylan/