Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize for literature – video report

Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel prize for literature, says the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius. Announcing the award on Thursday she says Dylan ‘created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. He is the first songwriter to win the accolade and the first American to win since Toni Morrison in 1993

• Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan

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