Bob Dylan has been made an honorary member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Dylan, who was
unable to attend the New York ceremony, said he felt "extremely
honoured" and "lucky" to be admitted.
The 71-year-old
said he looked forward to meeting the other members of the "pantheon of
great individual artists".
Academy
president Henry Cobb praised Dylan for "creating relationships that we
never imagined could exist between words, emotions and ideas".
For more than
50 years, he said, Dylan had "probed and prodded our psyches, recording
and then changing our world and our lives through poetry made manifest in
song".
Dylan's
induction was decided by a vote of the Academy's 250 members.
Virginia
Dejani, the Academy's executive director, said he was made an honorary member
because "what he has accomplished defies categorisation".
Cellist Yo Yo
Ma, actress Meryl Streep and the directors Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are
among those to have been granted the same accolade.
Source: BBC
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