Bob Dylan has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
The Swedish Academy is awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan in 2016 for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan is the author of many books and is an accomplished musician.
Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941. He began performing with various bands while living as a teenager in Hibbing, Minn. Dylan moved to New York City in 1961 and performed at several clubs. He met producer John Hammond at this time and signed a deal for his first album. The self-titled album was released in 1962.
Bob Dylan’s tours in 1965 and 1966 are when he started gaining the attention of the public. He has continued to tour since then. In the 1980s, Dylan decided to tour often in what is called the “Never-Ending Tour.”
Last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was Svetlana Alexievich. She was awarded the prize for “her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Other winners of Nobel Prizes in 2016 have also been announced. The Nobel Prize for Economics 2016 was awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström. They were given the award for “their contributions to contract theory.”
The winners for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
have also been named. It was split between three people. David J. Thouless is the first of the three and received half of the award. The other half was split between F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
