The shock Nobel victory for the 75-year-old Dylan – the first songwriter to take the prize -- stunned prize watchers.
Washington
: US President Barack Obama congratulated Bob Dylan on what he called his -"well-deserved-" Nobel literature prize, calling the music legend -"one of my favorite poets.-"
Obama's message on Twitter contained a link to a Spotify playlist of Dylan's greatest hits including -"Knockin' on Heaven's Door-" and -"Like A Rolling Stone.-"
-"Congratulations to one of my favorite poets, Bob Dylan, on a well-deserved Nobel,-" Obama tweeted -- a message retweeted nearly 3,000 times in 30 minutes.
The shock Nobel victory for the 75-year-old Dylan – the first songwriter to take the prize -- stunned prize watchers.
He was honored -"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,-" the Swedish Academy said.
