Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Bob Dylan

I am just about Bob's biggest fan north of Bremen. I utterly adore his lyrical output and find it among the finest ever put to paper inside the music industry. The man is a genius. I especially adore his early infatuation with the beatnik generation...yet I still fail to grasp why he should eligible for receiving the nobel price of literature. Considering he has only ever written one book. I could also think up about a hundred or so writers that deserve this title before even considering Bob (the human lamb).

Yeah I know...still doesn't make sense to me. I am one of those weird folks who believe that the recipient of the nobel peace prize in literature should be an actual writer.
The world is mad though. Next thing we'll probably see rap artists included in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame...oh wait.

Rewarding a singer/songwriter with the Nobel Prize for Literature may be a weak approach, but he can anyway be credited with adding some brains to rock music and a strong influence. If the Nobel Committee wants to undignify the Nobel Prize for Literature like they did with the Nobel peace prize, they have still a long way to go. Bob Dylan is a way better pick than Yasser Arafat, Barack Obama or the Evil Union. 

Edited by someone_else - October 15 2016 at 04:27

Just his gigantic history of WWII has more into it than all of Dylan's three-minute songs (not because of their length of course)

My (original) comment was addressing your "Winston Churchill won for literature, why not Bob Dylan" one. I added my own judgement of course but my main point was objecting at your dismissal of Churchill as another 'what the hell were they thinking' example of Nobel prize awarding. It certainly is not. That I think Dylan is not worthy in the end is actually rather irrelevant 

Literature grammy (sorry Nobel), had a couple of mistakes, Chyrchil was one, the other was Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, no matter how much I loved the book, it was for political reasons, not for it's quality, more likely deserved a Pulitzer.

But no mistake is as monumental as Dylan's

Now any Hollywood screenwriter may be elected or maybe J. K Rowlings because she inspired a new generation to read or some similar excuse, and that's absurd.

If they like Dylan so much, they could create The Music Nobel, but literature is for world class writers, not for a good lyricist.

timothy leary wrote: Evidently the prize committee did not check with you first.

^ But if they are gonna give it to a S/S, Dylan's as worthy as, who, Joni?  Lennon?  Don't tell me Peter Gabriel...

Nah.   For important semi-poetic singers, Bob D. is as good a choice as anyone and will cause the least stir.  Try telling someone Patti Smith won the Nobel Prize and you'll get a lot of "Oh.  Who?"

Trump's written more books than Dylan.