Bob Dylan is Nobel Laureate for Literature

[Wormius]

Interesting selection by the Nobel committee.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/no...ture-1.3802814

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, organizers announced early Thursday — marking the first time the prestigious award has gone to someone known primarily as a musician.

The Swedish Academy cited the 75-year-old music icon for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

[AltaGuy]

That's pretty cool - and well deserved. Wonder if Leonard Cohen is on the shortlist for one eventually as well.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by AltaGuy

That's pretty cool - and well deserved. Wonder if Leonard Cohen is on the shortlist for one eventually as well.

Not anymore; they're notoriously political in their focus to 'spread it around'. It's kinda like the Olympics that way. With one english-language folkish song-writer getting the award, that will probably be the only one in a generation or two.

Still a well-deserved award.