October 13, 2016
BREAKING 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” pic.twitter.com/XYkeJKRfhv
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan has become the first ever musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The news was announced this morning via a press release. Dylan beats out the frontrunners Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Haruki Murakami, and Don DeLillo, to take home the trophy. Previous winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
