Tomas Tranströmer. Svetlana Alexievich. Alice Munro. It used to be that the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to authors who wrote dense poems, short stories and novels in heady obscurity, as a sort of compensation for toiling in an art that’s as difficult as it is sorely under-appreciated (now more than ever). The times, they are a changin’. Bob Dylan’s claim to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature came as a shock last week.

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