Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy said was the 75-year-old songwriter’s role in “creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
“He is probably the greatest living poet,” Swedish Academy member Per Wästberg said.
Nobel committee permanent secretary Sara Danius recalled Homer and Sappho, classical Greek writers who were also “meant to be performed, often with instruments — it’s the same way with Bob Dylan”.
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