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World Service,1 min

A worthy winner?

The Documentary

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Did Bob Dylan deserve his Nobel Prize for literature? Howard Sounes, author of Down the Highway, the life of Bob Dylan, Lebanese American novelist Rabih Alemeddine and Pulitzer prize winning poet Rae Armantrout comment. (Photo: A mural of songwriter Bob Dylan by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra on display in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota October 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Credit: Getty Images)

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