Dylan Nobel win invites ignoble ire

Not everyone is happy with the Bob Dylan Nobel win.

Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, a self-professed Dylan fan, goes on a Twitter rant, calling the prize “an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.”

The “Trainspotting” author continues: “If you’re a ‘music’ fan, look it up in the dictionary. Then ‘literature’. Then compare and contrast.”

He also begs to know if writer Don De Lillo had been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll hall of fame yet.

Have they inducted Don De Lillo into the Rock n Roll hall of fame alongside Def Leppard and Slayer yet?

— Irvine Welsh (@IrvineWelsh) October 13, 2016

Novelist Hari Kunzru also joins in the Dylan bashing.

This feels like the lamest Nobel win since they gave it to Obama for not being Bush

— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) October 13, 2016

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, though, congratulates Dylan on being awarded the prize in literature.

“What a joy that Bob Dylan got the Nobel for literature. Many fond memories from my adolescence are associated with his music,” she tweets.

— with AP