Does Bob Dylan deserve to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature? - World Socialist Web Site
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Does Bob Dylan deserve to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
By David Walsh
21 October 2016
Is American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, now 75 years old, deserving of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Numerous issues need to be disentangled here, probably too many for one article.
In the first place, there is the matter of the Nobel Prize itself. No one is obliged to accept the awarding process as either entirely objective or disinterested. The prize has been handed out by the Swedish Academy, whose 18 members have tenure for life, since 1901. The winners have for the most part tended to be European, with Swedish writers especially well represented in the first few decades of the prize’s existence.