Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter takes the award for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’

For more than six decades he has remained a mythical force in music, his gravelly voice and poetic lyrics musing over war, heartbreak, betrayal, death and moral faithlessness in songs that brought beauty to life’s greatest tragedies.

But Bob Dylan’s place as one of the world’s greatest artistic figures was elevated further on Thursday when he was named the surprise winner of the Nobel prize for literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

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