Bob Dylan made honorary member of American Academy of Arts

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Bob Dylan’s influence has also reached beyond the music world alone. Heck, there’s even been poetry lectures at Universities analysing his lyrics. But now it’s pretty much been confirmed with the folk musician made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The honour society, which attempts to “foster, assist, and sustain excellence” in music, literature and art, inducted Dylan into the academy last week, with its president Henry Cobb applauding the singer for “probing and prodding our psyches, recording and then changing our world and our lives through poetry made manifest in song”.

Dylan, sadly unable to attend the ceremony, said he was honoured to be among the “pantheon of great individual artists”. He joins the likes of Woody Allen, Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese in receiving the induction.

[via BBC News]