Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize for Literature

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I'm complaining! I'm offended that some peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...










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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm complaining! I'm offended that some peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...










Wait, whut?

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I'm complaining! I'm offended that some Hibbing, MINNESOTA peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...

EDIT following a lot of articles; pro and con;

Billy Collins, the former United States poet laureate, argued that Mr. Dylan deserved to be recognized not merely as a songwriter, but as a poet.
“Most song lyrics don’t really hold up without the music, and they aren’t supposed to,” Mr. Collins said in an interview. “Bob Dylan is in the 2 percent club of songwriters whose lyrics are interesting on the page even without the harmonica and the guitar and his very distinctive voice. I think he does qualify as poetry.”
In giving the literature prize to Mr. Dylan, the academy may also be recognizing that the gap has closed between high art and more commercial creative forms.
“It’s literature, but it’s music, it’s performance, it’s art, it’s also highly commercial,” said David Hajdu, a music critic for The Nation who has written extensively about Mr. Dylan and his contemporaries. “The old categories of high and low art, they’ve been collapsing for a long time, but this is it being made official.”

Bottom line; I don't much care for his stuff (more Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Neal Young) but I never doubted that he is extremely talented, daring, never disappointing, and persistently messaging in many genres...for half a century!! He is still a 'work in progress' which many will undoubtedly follow with more interest now that the recognition is pretty universal.