Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for literature

"Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that the Swedish Academy described as “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

He is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and a groundbreaking choice by the Nobel committee to select the first literature laureate whose career has primarily been as a musician.

Although long rumored as a contender for the prize, Dylan was far down the list of predicted winners, which included such renown writers as Haruki Murakami and Ngugi wa Thiong’o."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/2016/10/13/d0c05ac4-90ea-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

Maybe I will change my mind at some point, but at the moment this only deepens my hatred of baby boomers tbqh.

The best response to winning this reward.

flol she's a facking national treasure

bummer, I was hoping Fosse would get it.

Hope his speech goes as well as this one

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:24 PM, mcbpete said:

Hope his speech goes as well as this one

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQgzSTz3JXU

That's from the period when he played bass for Duran Duran

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:12 PM, Alcofribas said:

bummer, I was hoping Fosse would get it.

yeah bob fosse is the shit

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:51 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 10/13/2016 at 5:12 PM, Alcofribas said:

bummer, I was hoping Fosse would get it.

yeah bob fosse is the shit

had to look that one up. lol

I think Pynchon should be the go-to consultant for how to receive literary awards.

Am I the only person on earth who thinks Dylan is a shit lyricist?

He's terrible

He's that guy who wrote that Rebecca Black song, right?

Why not Murakami? Dylan is neither a good musician nor a good writer

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What a joke. Murakami is becoming the Ulillillia of the Nobel prize

Why not George RR Martin? game of thrones is a masterclass he deserves it 

put it on the shelf with the rest of them. Does any praise affect a star like this at this point? Constantly fawned over for 45 years?