Bob Dylan Deserved to Win but at His Own Time

Bob Dylan deserved to win but at his own time.

On October 13th, Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature. It might be well deserved but it's very overdue and other people deserved to win this prize. Bob Dylan, born on May 24, 1941 in a town called Duluth, Minnesota he wrote songs like "The time are never a changing" and "A hard rain is a gonna fall" even though they were very successful in his time, he doesn’t deserve to get his prize this year because I believe that every prize that is going to be given for each year has to represent someone that did a significant and memorable work in the same year or around the same year.

First of all, there were more people that deserved this prize more than Bob Dylan like Haruki Murakami (4/1 odd) or Adonis (6/1).

 "Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and he is mostly famous for Being a contemporary, perhaps new-wave, writer, Murakami produces a style of fiction that many argue has blurred the lines between fiction that is “pure” and “popular” (Ellis, 199), or, simply, writing as candy and writing as stimulation. Though he is from Japan, Murakami floods his work with pop culture references, usually American, which has earned the writer a great deal of negative criticism from his native country."

"A Syrian-born poet, critic and essayist, and a staunch secularist who sees himself as a "pagan prophet", Adonis has been writing poetry for 70 years. He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, exerting a seismic influence on Arabic poetry comparable to TS Eliot's in the Anglophone world."

Second of all, the civil rights movement was in 1963 which makes it more than 50 years, this is a long time ago and he properly deserved it when people were still talking about his civil rights movement.

In conclusion, I believe that he deserves to win this amazing prize for literature but it is a bit too late and other people deserved to win this prize more than him which is somewhat unfair and saying that they won't win the prize 50 years after they deserve it.

Citations:

http://contemporary-literature.yoexpert.com/contemporary-literature-general/what-is-the-cause-of-the-success-of-haruki-murakam-33501.html

"Haruki Murakami Named 4/1 Favorite to Win 2016 Nobel ..." N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.

"Adonis: A Life in Writing | Books | The Guardian." N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.