Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

I am saying that they don't respect it.

And professor, thank you for the list of writers, I am only familiar with Borges and Murakami.
I’ve got some reading to do, I guess, it’s not all music.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Dylan is great because of the words he writes, nothing else. That’s literature. People can read the words to his songs without the music and have the same experiences as reading any other comparable short work.

There are also many to read, quantity as well as quality.

I understand the argument that putting the words to music provides an advantage. Perhaps an unfair one assuming certain rules that apparently do not exist. But one can also argue that the music makes the words even more powerful and hence of greater impact which is what I think the Nobel is mostly about.

Its an interesting development for sure. I can understand why traditional writers might not be happy. The game was just upped in a sense.

Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabakov, James Joyce, John Updike, Primo Levi, Virginia Woolf and Leo Tolstoy all never won the Nobel.  I don't think it effected anybody's thinking about these writers.  The Nobel is a contest fundamentally no different than an Academy Award.  Sometimes they get it right and sometimes it's questionable, but only the passage of time reveals the divide.  If Mr. Dylan is still relevant fifty years from now, then the Nobel committee probably got it right.