Not a writer? Has he been sculpting? Dancing? Pretty sure what he does counts as writing. Sour grapes novelists and poets. Go Bob.
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err he writes song lyrics...songs have been part of the literary canon all along, from Homer through Shakespeare to Blake
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Wrong. Song lyrics are a form of poetry; poetry is literature. How is he not a writer?
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really? What's the point of literature if it doesn't move people.
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I usually think you are rarely wrong: but when you are, oh boy, you are Nobel Prize Wrong! Songs lyrics are, of course, literature
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His music evolved from beat poetry & combined it with traditional folk/protest music. Are you saying such poetry is undeserving?
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Weak argument. In the same logic, Samuel Beckett and Bernard Shaw shouldn’t have been awarded a Nobel either.
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@acfick72 Dylan's lyrics do stand apart from the music - Times they are changing, Blowin in wind, Chimes of Freedom, + many moreThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Bob Dylan is a writer who sheds light FAR better than most. And this will get people to read - more than most.
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Ginsberg was jealous that he hadn't written Tambourine Man. Not a writer?
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have to disagree on this one. The man is a poet. He also happens to write some music on the side. I applaud the choice.
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Who should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
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The committee gave good reasons for why they chose him. Like Homer and Sappho, music has always been tied to literature.
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"As reading declines around the world", really?
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One should not expect too much from an entity which nominated Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Trump! for the Peace Prize!
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We should bear in mind that Bob couldn't give a rat's ass one way or the other.
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