The Week  |  22nd October 2016
DYLAN THE BARD: DOES HE DESERVE THE NOBEL?
Predictably enough, Bob Dylan himself has not said a word. As he travels the world on his never-ending tour, the singer-songwriter rarely gives a straight answer to the question that he famously posed: “How does it feel?” But on social media, others jostled to express their feelings about the seventy five year old becoming the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature since Toni Morrison in 1993 and some were not happy. Joanne Harris, the writer of the novel Chocolat, questioned the eligiblity of a “back catalogue of song lyrics” for a major literary prize, and said she looked forward to her Grammy; while the Lebanese author Rabih Alameddine tweeted that it was like “Mrs Fields [a snack food brand] winning three Michelin stars”.
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