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Post by spaceflower on Oct 13, 2016 20:10:52 GMT
It was really a surprise. Times are really changing, no singer/songwriter has received the literature prize earlier. Of course Bob Dylan is a poet, but I tend to see him more as a musician. And he has received so many prizes before, he is rich and famous. I would have preferred that the prize for a less known and rich poet.
Come gather 'round people where ever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, For the times they are a' changin'!
Come writers and critics who prophesy with your pen And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's namin' For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are a' changin'!
Maybe the Swedish Academy wants to be more popular.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 14, 2016 0:03:36 GMT
It is an odd choice. I don't mind that a musician won it, like you say he is a poet and his lyrics tell stories and I don't see anything wrong with a musician getting a literature prize. But like you say, he's well known, he's a white male, he already has all the privelages. But perhaps they would find it harder to argue that someone lesser known has made such an influence on culture.
I heard some people saying that music is not literature. I'm not sure how the Nobel Prize people define literature, and what it is. Certainly lyrics are writing, and are poetry (most of the time).
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Post by spaceflower on Oct 14, 2016 2:27:09 GMT
3I read that publishers and authors in USA were bitter b/c there had been no prize to an American since 1993 (Toni Morrison). Well, the world is bigger than USA. There are now 13 citizens of USA who have been awarded already.
Bad luck for Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Ford, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Joan Didion, Johan Ashbery, Marylynne Robinson etc. Now it will probably take at least 10 years before another American will be rewarded.
Only 14 female authors have been rewarded.
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