US singer Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The 75-year-old rock legend has been awarded the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
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The balladeer, artist and occasional actor is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.
The academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, announced the news Thursday.
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The prize carries with it a purse of approximately $900,000 and, as usual, inclusion on literature’s most illustrious list — the pantheon of Nobel winners, according to NPR.
The award will be presented alongside this year’s other five Nobel Prizes on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s 1896 death.
