If Bob Dylan makes it to Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremony on December 11th, he’ll have some good entertainment. The committee has chosen Sting to be the entertainment for the evening. Up and comer Halsey and a group called Highasakite will open the show. Conan O’Brien will host.
Sting is an excellent choice because he’s such a huge humanitarian and has lent himself to a number of causes including Amnesty International and the Rainforest Foundation. That should be some night. And no doubt Sting will perform a Dylan song– you could totally imagine his version of “Forever Young.”
Here are all the winners, not just Bob Dylan
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa
“for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016
Yoshinori Ohsumi
“for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Bob Dylan
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
The Nobel Peace Prize 2016
Juan Manuel Santos
“for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström
“for their contributions to contract theory”
