The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to US musician and poet Bob Dylan. At the hugely-anticipated ceremony in Stockholm today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to US poet and musician Bob Dylan.
He won the award for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition, Academy Permanent Secretary Sara Danius said after announcing the prize. Dylan is the first American to receive the award since 1993.
Today’s announcement completed the annual Nobel Prize announcements. Awards have earlier been awarded in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, peace and economics. This year, the prizes are each worth 930,000 dollars. The awards are presented every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.