For pop-song lyrics?
Not at all.
Then again, the Nobel prize is a crap anyway. Barry got the Nobel Peace prize just for being Barry.
Dylan is just another 60’s radical leftist who hid his leftism as best he could to sell more records.
“Now I’m a liberal up to a degree
I want everyone to be free
but if you think I’ll let Barry Goldwater
move in and marry my daughter
you must think I’m crazy
I wouldn’t do it for all the farms in Cuba”
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoia Blues”
Hey, “Bobby” everything those paranoid John Birchers predicted about communism have come to pass...thanks in large part to you.
“We got this guy Obama, and he’s going to change things.”
Yes, he wrote some good songs.
But a “literature” prize?
Please. He’s just another pop star that was marketed by Madison Avenue and used to push leftism.
Which left wing politicians did he ever endorse? He has never campaigned for any politician.
Just because he was critical of certain people/organizations (and the 2 you cited definitely deserve criticism) doesn't make him a raving leftist.
I think we can appreciate some of the lyrics from “Slow Train Coming”, Dylan’s contribution to “gospel music”.
“Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools...
You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules..”
Bob Dylan’s-”When You Gonna Wake Up”
He wasn’t at all. He wanted nothing to do with the 60s counterculture.
“Then again, the Nobel prize is a crap anyway”
Why do you conflate the other more noble (see what I did there? ;) ) prizes with the Peace prize?
They are not even selected and awarded by the same country.