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I'm curious. Should screenplays also be eligible for the nobel in literature?
by kriro 10y ago
I'm curious. Should screenplays also be eligible for the nobel in literature?
- stinkytaco 10y agoSeveral dramatists have won the Nobel in Literature. Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Elfriede Jelinek, and probably some I'm not remembering. EDIT: Eugene O'Neil, Jacinto Benavente, Dario Fo
- gkya 10y agoSadly Fo has passed away today.
- georgespencer 10y agoAnd should novels be eligible for songwriting awards?
- CPLX 10y agoIf they have a tune and you can dance to them.
- irb 10y agoI think the contention is that lyrics and novels are non-overlapping subsets of literature.
- Veen 10y agoMost early poetry was sung, and we're fine with calling that literature. Calling Dylan's work poetry does step over some normative lines, but they're fairly arbitrary lines. I know you were being sarcastic, but your comparison isn't really apt. Novels are not a lyric medium: they're prose. Song lyrics are lyrics set to music. Some poetry is "lyrics" without the music (although lyric poetry is not quite the same thing).
- mikeash 10y agoSongwriting clearly doesn't include novels. Literature includes both, and more.
- cooper12 10y agoSpoken word does exist. You're just drawing up arbitrary lines when in real life boundaries between media and genre aren't so distinct.
- dagw 10y agoPlaywrights have won several times. The problem with screenplays, as they exist today, is that they basically never really have 'an author' in the traditional sense.