[Eleutheria5]

Could it be that the Literature award has been sullied by its association with the Piece award?

[Cowboy Bob]

I hope they don’t award it to Bruce Springsteen next year!

[ronnie raygun]

The Nobel peace prize was reduced to a broken fisher price toy when the a##clown received it for breathing and nothing more. Isn’t it amazing that he still hasn’t done great things in 8 years, aw they had great expectations and since he is a so called black man they will never ask for it back for fear of being called a racist

[billorites]

Dylan is probably one of the greatest artists of my lifetime. Still, he’s as crazy as the day is long.

[Vaquero]

Good for you, Zimmy. Any awards association that gives a peace prize to Obama, when he hadn't done anything to earn one is a bogus award and brings shame on the 'noble' inventor of dynamite (pronounced by Bullwinkle J Moose as Dy-Nam-Mitt-Eee)

[xzins]

Looks like they’re getting the real Dylan. They should be excited.

[Dixie Yooper]

Since Al Gore, Obama and Hillary(another October surprise!} have all won the Nobel prize for their accomplishments, maybe Bob Dylan is humiliated by being named...

[equaviator]

What were they thinking? Being born in Minnesota doesn’t make him Scandinavian.

[Mr. Douglas]

I was never a fan of Bob Dylan.

I am now.

[trebb]

LOL! Looks like the Nobel folks are so proud of themselves that they consider it a slap to be ignored for turning it into a popularity contest designed to help them feel even prouder of themselves. Nobel is rolling over in his grave.

[Reno89519]

I haven’t followed this at all but it is odd that Dylan won’t acknowledge or welcome the recognition.

[nikos1121]

He’s the Shakespeare of our time

[luvie]

Maybe he agrees with me that he doesn’t deserve it. LOL!

[jmacusa]

Good for him. The thing is worthless. They gave a Noble to Yassar Arafat for crying out loud.

[BBB333]

You mean, of course ‘Peace’ award...

[AustinBill]

It's certainly within his right to decline the award, but not having the courtesy to acknowledge it or respond to the Swedish Academy is simply inexcusably rude and boorish.

In response the 2016 award should be pulled and re-awarded to someone else. Dylan can then be relegated to the "errata" section of the Nobel's history.

[Salman]

Alternate headline:

Nobel Prize Committee's trolling attempt fails for a change.

[duckman]

Never was a Dylan fan, I came from the DooWop era. However I really liked the ‘Blood On The Tracks’ LP.

[fella]

Positively 4th Street seems to be appropriate right about here, especially the last line.

[OwenKellogg]

[Moltke]

Perhaps he does not like to be associated with that other Nobel literature laureate, Winston Churchill?