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Literary prizes of all types are essentially stupid (literature isn’t a contest). To the extent they have any positive value at all it’s in bringing attention to writers who both deserve and in at least some sense need it or could use it.

Judged by this standard, giving the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan is absurd. It comes off as a publicity stunt on the part of the Nobel committee. ETA: Also as TWBB says it’s literally Peak Boomerism to an almost parodic extent.

As for the merits, I love me some Bob Dylan and have for more than 40 years, but if they’re going to expand the definition of “literature” in this way I can think of a whole lot of English language songwriters (let alone internationally) who are better lyricists, literarily speaking, than Uncle Bob. (I’m not familiar with Dylan’s other written work).

Basically I don’t really care about this, but I imagine people might want to discuss it.

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