Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, welcomes the bold and remarkable decision to award the Nobel Prize for Literature for the first time to an exceptional author, composer and musician, poet.
Coming from an Eastern European family that had fled pogroms, Bob Dylan alone summoned entire sections of American culture of the last fifty years, in enlightened consciousness of a generation.
Her incredibly rich texts, such as the unforgettable melodies of titles such as “Knockin’ on heaven’s door”, “Like a rolling stone” or “Hurricane”, carried by a recognizable voice, have shaped our common heritage.