Does Leonard Cohen Deserve A Nobel?

A campaign is being mounted to nominate Leonard Cohen for a Nobel Prize. “I surprised myself when I suddenly figured, in a sort of watershed moment, you know this guy actually does deserve the Nobel Prize. It’s the sort of wry, self-irony there. This man is an amazing poet. He’s not just a good poet; he’s an amazing poet. Cohen, whose first love is poetry, enjoyed later success as a recording star. A companion to the Order of Canada, Cohen had published two internationally acclaimed collections before the age of 30 and went on to write six more. ‘He’s a universal poet in a way that I can’t think of anybody since maybe Homer – in western tradition anyway. And Homer, by the way, was a singer too’.”