Just hours after Dylan's 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature win was revealed, The Local paid former New Yorker Young a visit at his Södermalm music shop to find out what he thinks about his old friend's new honour.
NOBEL
The man who discovered Bob Dylan on his Nobel Prize win
Stockholm resident Izzy Young organized Bob Dylan's first proper concert back in 1961 at New York's Carnegie Chapter Hall.
Published: 13 October 2016 16:17 CEST
Updated: 13 October 2016 17:24 CEST
Updated: 13 October 2016 17:24 CEST
Izzy Young organized Bob Dylan's first major concert. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT
NOBEL PRIZE
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said.
Published: 7 October 2021 13:31 CEST
A copy of Andulrazak Gurnah's book on the stands at the Swedish Academy on Thursday. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP
Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar, but who arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, was honoured “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
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