Bob Dylan Nobel Prize & Johnny Cash in The New Yorker

[Achebe]

i don't care too much about lit since the winners are usually well paid already -- cared much more about the medicine winner, and th peace prize, since all that cash goes a long way there -- but i butt in to refute the only european lamguage folks win awards. there's mo yan, tagore, all those expats -- it's just it seems to be the majority, europeans. and honestly, in about a hundred years peeps gonna be putting dylan on the same foot as printworkers like carson -- art is art. shakespeare surely was pop art in his age, or were there televisions in the tudors'?

How ironic, to accept this award from The Masters of War.

But dynamite is alright....it's needed for mining and construction as well.

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Lol. He's alright. I mean there's a respected poetry movement around kerning, so the stuff gets weird. It was either this topic or poptarts that are root beer flavored: http://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/...5x1254.jpg.

This sorta makes the literature prize a joke (it already is, given that only writers in European languages get nominated), tied with the Peace prize. It also makes the Arts a joke, by reinforcing the popular belief that all art is arbitrary, there are no standards, and Eminem, Shakespeare, who cares.

Tagore won in 1913 thanks to a mediocre translation, it was a miracle. Do you seriously think that there has been no world class writing in India since then? 
Expats writing in a colonial language don't qualify.  Ok, it's a European prize so I can understand the limitations, but it does make the Literature Nobel a fake Nobel.

That was bad enough, but Dylan? Anyone on this forum can write better poetry. As far as cultural influences go Michael Jackson was bigger.  Or the Gangnam Style guy.