The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
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Bob Dylan

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan

"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Prize Announcement

Watch Professor Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, announce the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Interview after the announcement

"He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition"

Following the announcement, Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, was interviewed by freelance journalist Sven Hugo Persson about the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan.
(Our apologies for the sound disturbances.)