After Bob Dylan, are there other singers who deserve a Nobel prize?

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The first of many? Bob Dylan.
The first of many? Bob Dylan. Photograph: Domenech Castello/EPA Photograph: Domenech Castello/EPA

Has Bob Dylan winning the Nobel prize for literature started something? Is there another singer-songwriter-poet worthy of the honour?

James Turner, Leeds

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