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Can Bob do it?

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Oct 6, 2011 Updated Oct 10, 2011

Can Bob Dylan really pick up this year's Nobel prize for literature?

The odds on Bob picking up the prize have shortened from 100/1 to 5/1 over in the last 24 hours, making him the firm favourite.

Back in 1986, Alfred Nobel specified in his will that the award should go to "the person who...produced in the field of literature, the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".

Does that sound like Dylan to you?

UPDATE: A poet won it instead.

Source: The Guardian external link

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind"...

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