Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Congrats to Mr. Dylan!

I really don't know whether he deserves it any more this year than someone else, but a group of people in Sweden have declared him worthy.  Frankly, they know more about modern literature than I do and I suspect they know more about that subject than anyone posting on this thread.

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.