Excerpted from LIFE’s Bob Dylan, a 96-page, fully illustrated commemorative edition. Available at retailers and at Amazon.com The unorthodox selection of Bob Dylan as the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature was bound to cause controversy. He became the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993 and, more significantly, he became the first songwriter, from any country, to win it ever. Although there had been a quiet groundswell for Dylan-as-Nobelist over the years—supported in part by the University academics who teach his lyrics in their classrooms—many within the literary community squirmed.
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Is The Crowning Achievement Of An Extraordinary Life
Kostya Kennedy, Time: Entertainment
Sat, 12/10/2016 - 5:00am
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