Mrs. Fields
ボブ・ディランのノーベル文学賞，まさに青天の霹靂でした。アメリカ人の友人からは"Yeah. I saw that about an hour ago. Well deserved."と評価するメッセージがもどってきましたが，みなさんはどうお感じになられましたか。
Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Half a century ago, Bob Dylan shocked the music world by plugging in an electric guitar and alienating folk purists. For decades he continued to confound expectations, selling millions of records with dense, enigmatic songwriting.
Now, Mr. Dylan, the poet laureate of the rock era, has been rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor that elevates him into the company of T. S. Eliot, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison and Samuel Beckett.
Mr. Dylan, 75, is the first musician to win the award, and his selection on Thursday is perhaps the most radical choice in a history stretching back to 1901. In choosing a popular musician for the literary world’s highest honor, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, dramatically redefined the boundaries of literature, setting off a debate about whether song lyrics have the same artistic value as poetry or novels.
Some prominent writers celebrated Mr. Dylan’s literary achievements, including Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates and Salman Rushdie, who called Mr. Dylan “the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition,” adding, “Great choice.”
But others called the academy’s decision misguided and questioned whether songwriting, however brilliant, rises to the level of literature.
“Bob Dylan winning a Nobel in Literature is like Mrs Fields being awarded 3 Michelin stars,” the novelist Rabih Alameddine wrote on Twitter. “This is almost as silly as Winston Churchill.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html
本題からはそれますが，最後にあるRabih Alameddine氏（レバノン系アメリカ人 画家，小説家）の辛辣なコメントにあるMrs Fields（正確にはperiodありのMrs. Fields）云々の箇所が気になりました。
Mrs. Fields Cookiesは米国を拠点にいまでは世界９カ国で事業を展開しているカリフォルニア発祥のクッキーのメーカーです。
残念ながら日本には進出していませんが，わたしもバンクーバーにいた頃にはよく通ったお店でした。創業者のMrs. Fieldsは一代で小さなパン屋さんから世界的なメーカーへと引き上げたビジネスウーマンとして，米国では知らない人がいないほどの立身出世中の人物として認知されています。引き合いに出された方はたまったものではありませんね。（lua）
