Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize

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Bob Dylan born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941 is a Nobel Prize winning American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
Dylan has won many awards throughout his career including eleven Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and one Golden Globe Award. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In May 2000, Dylan received the Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI.

Stockholm, Sweden
BREAKING 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”

Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in May 2012. In February 2015, Dylan accepted the MusiCares Person of the Year award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his philanthropic and artistic contributions to society. In November 2013, Dylan received the accolade of Légion d'Honneur from the French education minister Aurélie Filippetti.
On October 13, 2016, Dylan was announced by the Swedish Academy as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the committee commending him "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.  


#NobelFacts Bob Dylan is the 9th Literature Laureate born in the USA #NobelPrize
2016 Literature Laureate Bob Dylan, age 75, born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. #NobelPrize
 Bob Dylan becomes the first musician to be awarded the Nobel prize in Literature

 'Blowin' in the wind' written by Bob Dylan. 

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