New Republic: "Bob Dylan 100 percent is not going to win.
Stop saying Bob Dylan should win the Nobel Prize."
So much for that writer's crystal ball.
https://newrepublic.com/article/137496/will-win-2016-nobel-prize-literature
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/13/497780610/bob-dylan-titan-of-american-music-wins-the-2016-nobel-prize-in-literature
Bob Dylan, Titan Of American Music, Earns Stunning Nobel Prize Win
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. In doing so, the prolific musician became the first American to win the prize in more than two decades. Not since novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993 has an American claimed the prize.
Dylan won the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," according to the citation by the Swedish Academy, the committee that annually decides the recipient of the Nobel Prize. The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.
The win comes as something of a shock. As usual, the Swedish Academy did not announce a shortlist of nominees — leaving the betting markets to their best guesses. And while Dylan has enjoyed perennial favor as an outside shot for the award, few expected that the musician would be the first to break the Americans' long dry spell — not least because he made his career foremost on the stage, not the printed page.
Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but influential, both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The prolific singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums, including The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks. His track "Like a Rolling Stone" has taken on mythic standing in the decades since its release; many, including Dylan himself, have pointed to it as emblematic of a sea change in American music.
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and stupid.
He wrote this -
An American has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the first time in 23 years—but in a shocking decision, an American author wasn’t awarded. Instead, songwriter Bob Dylan won “for having created new poetic expressions within the Great American song tradition.”
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/137762/bob-dylan-won-2016-nobel-prize-literature
because he did. 
