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A Nobel Prize for Bob Dylan

It seems that the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature has never
created such turmoil and differences in opinions as the surprising
announcement that came out at noon from the Swedish Academy in
Stockholm. The Nobel Prize in Literature for two thousand sixteen will be
awarded to a musician - yes, a musician - Bob Dylan. The judges at the
prize committee wrote that Dylan gave a new poetic interpretation to the
American songwriting tradition, but members of the literary community
were hardly convinced and with them millions of online users who were
furious about awarding the most important prize in the literary world, in
the past won by Hemingway, Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett, to a
popular American songwriter, important and valued as he may be. Big
music websites on the hand, were quick to open Champaign (bottles) and
celebrate the unprecedented win. Bob Dylan, seventy years old today, was
born as Robert Allen Zimmerman to a couple of Jewish immigrants in
Minnesota. At first he mostly played Folk and Country, and became
famous in the mid-sixties when the Civil Rights Movement preformed his
song ‘Blowing in the Wind’. Up until today hardly any poet has won the
literature prize, and at the Swedish Academy (they) explained tonight the
Dylan is probably the greatest living poet at present. The prize Bob Dylan
receives today grants a canonic status for Rock ‘N Roll, a recognition by
the snobby literary community of one of the (most) fantastic and prolific
poets of our time, who even in the eighth decade of his life continues to
create and put out more and more albums.

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