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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I know you avoided the second reason on purpose. While I think that Dylan is a song writer not a novelist, my point was that he didn't bother to show up to the award banquet and his response when told he won wasn't exactly ecstatic, so it wasn't my opinion, it was Dylan's reaction that I was talking about.
You know, if you took a minute to actually read and think about what was said, you wouldn't find yourself trying to spin things quite so much.
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I read exactly what you wrote. And dismissing a prize's importance simply by the statement of one eccentric artist is rather childish. So I dismissed it as a simple rant. Contrary to your belief, the Nobel Price is not exclusively for novelists. It is for literature. Lyrics are a form of literature. Just like poetry is a form of literature. Did Bob Dylan deserve to get the prize in the first place? That is neither for you nor me to decide. It is not a popularity contest. The Nobel Prize (any, not just literature) is a pat on the back, after the effect, in hindsight, that this artist or scientist managed to have a meaningful impact or influence during their lifetime. For literature it is writers you should have been reading.