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GUWAHATI: Eminent writer Ruskin Bond today said the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to singer-poet Bob Dylan was “not a right one” and is an “insult” to all the great writers who have received the award so far.

Bond against Nobel for Bob Dylan

Author Ruskin Bond poses for a selfie with a fan at the North East Literary Festival ‘River Talks’ in Guwahati on Friday. PTI



Guwahati, October 21

Eminent writer Ruskin Bond today said the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to singer-poet Bob Dylan was “not a right one” and is an “insult” to all the great writers who have received the award so far.

“Dylan is a successful musician and a great entertainer, but I am not sure whether he was given the award in the right category,” Bond said during a conversation organised as part of ‘River Talks—the North East Literary Festival’ here.

Dylan is not really a writer and awarding the prize to him in the literature category is a “great insult to all the writers who have already received the award and also to those who rightly deserve it”, the author said.

“The decision of the Nobel Committee, however, has on several occasions not been right and there is not much one can do about it,” said the Padma Bhushan-winning author who has been writing for more than half a century now.

Bond, who lives in Mussoorie, has authored over 500 short stories, essays and novels along with more than 50 books for children. — PTI

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