Bob Dylan Wins Nobel For Literature

[Clean]

I never cared that much for Dylan. His album (yes, it was an album), Blood on the Tracks, was decent. But, more than one or two songs in a row would put you to sleep.

The 75-year old singer-songwriter was honored for his intricate, evocative lyrics, and for his alternately political and phantasmagoric anthems such as “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Forever Young,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” “Rainy Day Women#12 & 35,” and “The Times They Are a-Changin.'” He joins the ranks of William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Saul Bellow, William Butler Yeats, and Ernest Hemingway — all previous laureates.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-literature-114337336.html

 

[Mesohorny]

Excellent choice, well-deserved. It has nothing to do with his voice, it's all about the poetry of his lyrics

 

[Seattle Husker]

Now its being reported that the Nobel Committee can't locate him to present him with the award.

 

[accuratehorn]

He had been considered for years for the Nobel Prize in poetry, but the committee could not agree whether songs constituted poems.
This is richly deserved, and long overdue.
I have a book of all Dylan's song lyrics, many of which are amazing poetry.

 

[Statalyzer]

Now its being reported that the Nobel Committee can't locate him to present him with the award.

From what I know of Dylan, that was intentional.