Chitchat Nobel Prize Committee has become a joke. Here's why...

The current POTUS was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he'd done any significant work to bring peace to the world.

Many experts around the world criticize the Nobel Prize Committee for controversially awarding the Peace Prize of 2016 to the current Colombian president.

Today the Committee has become a joke by awarding the Literature Prize of 2016 to Bob Dylan. Many people were confounded by it.

*************************************
Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature

Laura Smith-Spark
CNN
October 13, 2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan, 75, "is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition." She drew parallels between his work and that of ancient Greek poets.

"If you look back, far back, 2,500 years or so, you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, that were meant to be performed, often with instruments -- and it's the same way with Bob Dylan," she said.

Although Dylan is not in the established canon of literary writers, Danius praised his creative output over five decades, including his constant reinvention of himself. She also described him as "a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler."

Dylan's music and lyrics spoke to a generation of people during the tumultuous 1960s and helped galvanize the civil rights movement. His influence continues to permeate through rock, pop and folk music today.

Asked where those unfamiliar with Dylan's work should start, Danius -- a professor in literature at Stockholm University-- recommended his 1966 album "Blonde on Blonde," saying it contained "many examples of his brilliant way of rhyming and putting together refrains and his pictorial thinking."

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/13/world/nobel-prize-literature/index.html

Dont question so much. Angmo opinion the BESTEST! Even the 5000 year history Chinks gets pride to be awarded by Angmo (on cover of Times Magazine, get Oscar Awards, Fuck by Angmo in the arse be it gay or charboh).

Pinkieslut said:

Dont question so much. Angmo opinion the BESTEST! Even the 5000 year history Chinks gets pride to be awarded by Angmo (on cover of Times Magazine, get Oscar Awards, Fuck by Angmo in the arse be it gay or charboh).

Click to expand...

Wait ...wait...this is still not the bestest joke......now that euro has so so unfortunately fallen into hands of the moose lum mob, inclusive of Sweden (of the abba sexiest bottom fame)...within the next ten years, you will get to see :

.... the nobel pee prize awarded to the ..........ISS...the premium world peace organisation devoted to the pursuit of peace by terror!!!!!

.....the nobel chemistry prize awarded to some paki scientist for the discovery and development of chemical weapons of mass destruction for targeted at wiping out all the white trash in euro and ammerika....

.....the nobel biology prize awarded to some kerling stud who forcibly sired 72 virgins and resulting in the birth of 99 cute babies .....amongst which are 50 of the female type to add to the pool of virginal underteen brides....

.....the nobel economics prize awarded to a ang mo prof who managed to survived the chemical pogroms by converting to moose lum for the discovery of the principle of 'no money, no problem, just print money' theorem and practice.....

LOL LOL - stooo pig ....white trash ....rushing head over heels towards their extinction by their open leg policy.....lai ah....coffee shop open tua tua....all you lan lans just come in and fxxxx....FOR FREE.....:*:

The nobel prize, ICC, PCA, WB, etc are all created by western countries to continue political control over all developing or opponent nations. Recognise this for peace of mind and clarity.

The moment when Nobel Prize was given to stupid Obama, I knew that Nobel Prize has loss it's prestige.

Devil Within said:

The moment when Nobel Prize was given to stupid Obama, I knew that Nobel Prize has loss it's prestige.

Click to expand...

Blackie just climbed into the seat of the devil .... COMPARED AGAINST

.....NOW...when he has already shown that he could bomb, war and murder his way of the thousands innocents in Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc, etc

of course, he was considered a 'peaceful' and 'peaceable' POTUS......deserving of the pee prize, then....

Kudos to the no bell committee to have such ass polishing foresight and able to foretell the future, 8 years ago ....LOL ....LOL

fupikee said:

Blackie just climbed into the seat of the devil .... COMPARED AGAINST

.....NOW...when he has already shown that he could bomb, war and murder his way of the thousands innocents in Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc, etc

of course, he was considered a 'peaceful' and 'peaceable' POTUS......deserving of the pee prize....

Kudos to the no bell committee to have such foresight in able to foretell the future, 8 years ago ....LOL ....LOL

Click to expand...

If nobel committee could be so easily fooled, perhaps we can't blame the 70% of sinkies too much.

When Obama gets a peace award, u know it's a joke.

zeebjii said:

If nobel committee could be so easily fooled, perhaps we can't blame the 70% of sinkies too much.

Click to expand...

If they got their money by manufacturing a powder capable of and had already inflicted deaths to millions....they cannot be so stoo pig.

What they did was an immediate act of ass kissing and polishing for an incoming blackie POTUS...with the hope that this act of subservience will earn them good favours from blackie in the years to come....

They are manipulators....not stooping fools.....

Singaporeans are different ...they have been shepherded and herded into an environment of dependency, compliance and complacency ..right from the beginning using legal, political and economic tools of control.....

....maybe not all 70%....but amongst the young adults and newly minted tertiary graduates, despite the prevalence of the internet in Singapore and the vastly improved access to information available, they deliberately choose the pappies...with the false hopes that their holy choice will guarantee them a better job, future, security and peaceful life, in Singapore ......

....but as we all know, these false hopes have just come to naught.....many of them still remain unemployed, under employed or have to eke out a living doing mundane or low level jobs .... taxi drivers, hawkers, etc....Singapore remain vulnerable to the impacts created by much much bigger economies, big power political plays....

....mean while the country is moving backwards towards a third world environment .... freedom of choice curbed by sneaky tweaks of the law, crowded living, more and more expensive costs of living, smoky & hazy air,...while the elite live in comfort, earn millions and buoyed by sinful, undeserving and overpriced sinecures secured through the scholarly system of control....

....while the fault cannot be totally attributable to the stupidity of the 70% but they are still responsible in part for their choice of control masters through the ballots.....unless.....

fupikee said:

If they got their money by manufacturing a powder capable of and had already inflicted deaths to millions....they cannot be so stoo pig.

What they did was an immediate act of ass kissing and polishing for an incoming blackie POTUS...with the hope that this act of subservience will earn them good favours from blackie in the years to come....

They are manipulators....not stooping fools.....

Singaporeans are different ...they have been shepherded and herded into an environment of dependency, compliance and complacency ..right from the beginning using legal, political and economic tools of control.....

....maybe not all 70%....but amongst the young adults and newly minted tertiary graduates, despite the prevalence of the internet in Singapore and the vastly improved access to information available, they deliberately choose the pappies...with the false hopes that their holy choice will guarantee them a better job, future, security and peaceful life, in Singapore ......

....but as we all know, these false hopes have just come to naught.....many of them still remain unemployed, under employed or have to eke out a living doing mundane or low level jobs .... taxi drivers, hawkers, etc....Singapore remain vulnerable to the impacts created by much much bigger economies, big power political plays....

....mean while the country is moving backwards towards a third world environment .... freedom of choice curbed by sneaky tweaks of the law, crowded living, more and more expensive costs of living, smoky & hazy air,...while the elite live in comfort, earn millions and buoyed by sinful, undeserving and overpriced sinecures secured through the scholarly system of control....

....while the fault cannot be totally attributable to the stupidity of the 70% but they are still responsible in part for their choice of control masters through the ballots.....unless.....

Click to expand...

One day, Singaporeans will realise the true pap. In the meantime, we continue to speak out

The day we knew that people don’t care about books anymore. Times they are a-changin

Ephrat Livni
October 13, 2016

That the Nobel Prize in Literature just went to a celebrity folk singer whose heyday has long since passed has been lauded by Bob Dylan lovers, mocked by literary critics, and mourned by some writers.

The online publication Electric Literature warned its readers that its headline about the prize was not a joke, knowing that hearts would be broken. But the Nobel Prize committee may have picked up on something that is already plaguing the literary world: The next generation of readers isn’t that into reading.

In the US, the vast majority of Americans are still reading books, or at least starting them (finishing them is another story). But books appear to be losing their luster among young people. A survey of studies by Common Sense Media found that American teenagers are reading less for pleasure. As literary critic David Denby noted about teenage reading habits in the New Yorker, “reading anything serious has become a chore, like doing the laundry or prepping a meal for a kid brother. Or, if it’s not a chore, it’s just an activity, like swimming or shopping, an activity like any other. It’s not something that runs through the rest of their lives.”

That a songwriter snatched up a coveted prize devoted to book writers added salt to the wound for writers. “You wouldn’t give the literary prize to an economist or a political saint. You shouldn’t give it to Bob Dylan,” wrote Slate critic Stephen Metcalf. “The distinctive thing about literature is that it involves reading silently to oneself. Silence and solitude are inextricably a part of reading, and reading is the exclusive vehicle for literature.”

The ascendance of light reads has similarly irked literary gurus and their protégés. A scathing rant by an MFA instructor about the decline of thoughtful writing among his students led to a firestorm of tweets, open letters, and blog posts last year. “I’ve heard many MFA instructors bitch about the same irritants: aspiring writers who treat the work like therapy, people with nothing to say, intellectual posturing, deadline-fueled neuroses and, above all, students who seem uninterested in reading, or only interested in reading other debut novels as a form of coldblooded market research,” one writer noted in a response on Salon.

For some, rejecting reading altogether has become a point of pride. As Kanye West famously said before publishing a book of his own, “Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books…I am a proud non-reader of books.”

Source: http://qz.com/808761/bob-dylans-nobel-prize-in-literature-is-proof-that-no-one-cares-about-books/

Is Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature a joke or an inspired choice?

To say that singer Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature came as a shock to the literary establishment is something of an understatement.

With the Syrian poet Adonis and the Kenyan novelist and critic Ngugi Wa Thiong’o widely seen as favourites, Dylan’s triumph sparked a mixture of horror, head scratching and elation.

“Dylan’s name has often been mentioned over the past few years but we always thought it was a joke,” said the French novelist Pierre Assouline, who could not hide his fury at the Nobel committee.

“Their decision is contemptuous of writers,” he said. “I like Dylan but where is the [literary] work? I think the Swedish Academy have made themselves look ridiculous.”

With three of the giants of American letters - Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates and Don De Lillo - still waiting for the Nobel nod, and past greats such as Jorge Luis Borges ignored in their lifetimes, other writers were also quick to put the boot in.

Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame took to Twitter to skewer the choice of the 75-year-old folk singer.

“I’m a Dylan fan, but this is an ill-conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies,” he wrote.

The Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie - often cited as a possible Nobel winner himself -- was rather more magnanimous.

“Great choice,” he tweeted. “From Orpheus to (the Pakistani poet) Faiz, song and poetry have been closely linked,” he adding, echoing the statement of the Nobel jury.

“Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition.”

Oates too, a fervent social media user, implied she had not been waiting with bated breath for a call from Oslo. She congratulated Dylan saying he was “an inspired and original choice.

“His haunting music and lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, ‘literary’,” she tweeted.

However, she went on to say that the Beatles would have been “equally deserving... if one is thinking of quasi-pop music icons.

“Recall,” she added, “that Bob Dylan named himself for great 20th-century poet Dylan Thomas, who did not win the Nobel but might well have, like Robert Frost.”

Sixties legend singer Marianne Faithfull could not contain her pride at Dylan’s victory, saying she was “very proud” of her old friend.

“I think he’s one of the greatest artists in the world and he’s changed our whole lives with his writing and his poetry.”

And she was scornful of the writers criticising the choice. “I think they’re ridiculous,” she said.

Dylan’s victory, however, raises questions about what constitutes literature.

Must it still be confined to poetry and fiction given that last year’s Nobel winner was a journalist, Svetlana Alexievich? Or should the definition also been extended to all those who like Dylan use language to play with the emotions? [Author Salman Rushdie said Bob Dylan was a “great choice” as the Nobel literature laureate. Photo: Reuters]

For the acclaimed Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, literature’s frontiers can be more elastic.

“The purists and the begrudgers will certainly scream sacrilege (that Dylan won), and claim a slackness of thinking on the part of the Nobel academy,” he said.

“But I am happy that literature has also recognised the lyric, in the poetic sense of the term,” said the Los Angeles-based novelist.

But having said that he was “satisfied” Dylan deserved the Nobel, he said the late great French songwriter “Georges Brassens should have too”.

The novelist Philippe Margotin, co-author of the international bestseller Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, is in no doubt that the author of Like a Rolling Stone is “the great living poet of 20th-century America”.

He claimed Dylan’s literary credentials were impeccable. “He was an avid reader of the (19th-century) poets Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. And naturally he was inspired by the poets of the Beat Generation.

“Of the 500 songs he has written, some are less musically important, but every time the text is absolutely sublime,” he insisted.

Nevertheless Dylan has been often criticised for the opacity of much of his work, which sometimes can seem so personal as to defy interpretation.

As a writer in the traditional sense, his output has been rather sparse. Dylan wrote a collection of stream of consciousness poetry called Tarantula at the height of his fame, which got a critical mauling when it was published in 1971.

He had a warmer reception for his bestselling Chronicles in 2005, the first part of what was billed as three-part memoir. His millions of fans are still waiting for the final two instalments to appear.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Writers divided over Dylan award win

Source: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/arti...obel-prize-literature-joke-or-inspired-choice