Legendary singer, songwriter Bob Dylan awarded Nobel Prize for literature

He won it -"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.-"

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature -"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,-" the Swedish Academy said on Thursday in awarding the 8 million Swedish crown ($927,740) prize.

Bob Dylan is known for popular songs like “Blowin’ in The Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin”, which also became anthems for America’s civil rights movement and also for the anti-war movement in the 70s.

He has previously been inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and also won the Pulitzer Prize for -"his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power,-" in 2008.

Literature was the last of this year's Nobel prizes to be awarded. The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will.