The prize

[oakfarm2]

The last American who got a Nobel prize in literature was Toni Morrison, 1993, and now after Americans started to complain that they don’t get Nobel prizes in literature - especially not on the the same scale that they get other Nobel prizes - the Swedish Academy shocked the world and gave the prize to Bob Dylan. Ok maybe it’s not a shock, but fun

Comments

[arwen_of_lorien]

It's pretty ridiculous that they'd give a Nobel Prize to Dylan, but they also gave Henry Kissinger, Obama and Yasser Arafat Nobel Prizes for peace, so it's obvious the whole thing turned into a laughable ordeal a while ago.

[oakfarm2]

I honestly have no opinion about if it was right or wrong to give it that prize to Dylan. I don’t know enough to say anything.

You’re right the Nobel peace prize has been weird for a long time, the names you mentioned are example of that. Perhaps it should have been better if they gave the peace prize to organisations not people. They have gave it to to example the Red cross (more than one time) and to IAEA. I don’t think anyone complain about those choices.

[arwen_of_lorien]

I think that they did give a Peace prize to United Nations (I went to check it now and yeah, they awarded UN and its various offices 11 times so far!!!). That's also very laughable, it's like tapping yourself on the back and saying 'Nice job.' Also, they never awarded one to Gandhi. Ahhh... politics.

[oakfarm2]

To try to be more possitive, and don't get me wrong I still think they have made misstakes, Malala Yousafzai got the Nobel peace prize.