Dylan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and the US Medal of Freedom in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama; before receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature four years later for having "created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Why did Bob Dylan stop making music?

“I was going to quit singing,” he told Playboy in an interview published in February 1966. “I was very drained, and the way things were going, it was a very draggy situation… I was playing a lot of songs I didn't want to play. I was singing words I didn't really want to sing.

Is Bob Dylan ill?

Rock legend Bob Dylan canceled a two-week European tour Wednesday after being hospitalized in New York for treatment of a respiratory infection, according to a statement released in London by the singer's representatives.