Dissecting Dylan: Come writers and critics ...

18 October 2016 - 11:05
By Tymon Smith

One of the most mythologised and endlessly discussed men in popular culture is also one of its most awarded. Over half a century Bob Dylan has won everything from three Grammys to an Oscar for best original song to a Pulitzer Prize and now the Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement of his most recent accolade last week saw thousands of words produced about whether a singer should be awarded a literature prize and whether Dylan was a pop singer or a poet or whether he was too white or too m...

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