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Started by mongers, October 13, 2016, 07:09:50 AM

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mongers

October 13, 2016, 07:09:50 AM
Seems like an appropriate choice.

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US singer Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The 75-year-old rock legend received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

The balladeer, artist and occasional actor is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.

The performer - who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas - is the first American to win the award since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993.

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Dylan had been chosen because he was "a great poet in the English speaking tradition".

"For 54 years now he's been at it reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity," she told reporters in Stockholm.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621
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garbon

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October 13, 2016, 07:43:41 AM
Seems a bit late though, no? How close are we to his most recent relevant bits of his body of work?
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Liep

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October 13, 2016, 07:49:56 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2016, 07:43:41 AM
Seems a bit late though, no? How close are we to his most recent relevant bits of his body of work?

2006 I'd say. I get your point but isn't this more like a lifetime achievement award than for specific works?
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Valmy

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October 13, 2016, 07:53:10 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2016, 07:43:41 AM
Seems a bit late though, no? How close are we to his most recent relevant bits of his body of work?

Yeah. But that is pretty common for the Nobel Prize right? Einstein won his for his 1905 paper in 1922.
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garbon

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October 13, 2016, 07:56:46 AM
Quote from: Liep on October 13, 2016, 07:49:56 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 13, 2016, 07:43:41 AM
Seems a bit late though, no? How close are we to his most recent relevant bits of his body of work?

2006 I'd say. I get your point but isn't this more like a lifetime achievement award than for specific works?

Obama. ;)
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Valmy

#5
October 13, 2016, 07:58:15 AM
The Peace Prize is special  :lol:
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Tamas

#6
October 13, 2016, 08:07:22 AM
Well deserved.

I have always thought he was a poet who has been just smart enough to realise his creations can reach far more people in the form of music.

HVC

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October 13, 2016, 08:17:46 AM
Quote from: Tamas on October 13, 2016, 08:07:22 AM
Well deserved.

I have always thought he was a poet who has been just smart enough to realise his creations can reach far more people in the form of music.

Heart of a poet and voice of a stroke victim.
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celedhring

#8
October 13, 2016, 08:30:09 AM
Well deserved. The Nobel prizes think out of the box often, and sometimes it backfires on them, but this one is surely deserved.

Wonder if the day will come where a film writer deserves this. Many playwrights have won it already.

Monoriu

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October 13, 2016, 08:32:45 AM
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grumbler

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October 13, 2016, 11:58:35 AM
Quote from: Tamas on October 13, 2016, 08:07:22 AM
Well deserved.

I have always thought he was a poet who has been just smart enough to realise his creations can reach far more people in the form of music.

I'd argue that this is almost universally true among modern poets.  Have you heard the stuff that passes for 'poetry" today?  It's just prose with bad punctuation.
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Hamilcar

#11
October 13, 2016, 12:47:07 PM
Eh, inoffensive I guess.

mongers

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October 13, 2016, 01:37:50 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 13, 2016, 12:47:07 PM
Eh, inoffensive I guess.

Yes your post is.
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Valmy

#13
October 13, 2016, 01:38:52 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 13, 2016, 12:47:07 PM
Eh, inoffensive I guess.

High praise these days :lol:
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Hamilcar

#14
October 13, 2016, 01:45:34 PM
Quote from: mongers on October 13, 2016, 01:37:50 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 13, 2016, 12:47:07 PM
Eh, inoffensive I guess.

Yes your post is.

Old people and their attachment to their dying heroes.

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