Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature - Swedish Academy

© REUTERS / Ki Price/FilesUS musician Bob Dylan performs during on day 2 of The Hop Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent on June 30th 2012.
US musician Bob Dylan performs during on day 2 of The Hop Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent on June 30th 2012. - Sputnik International
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US folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.

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STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) — The Academy said it awarded Dylan, 75, the literature prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Dylan was born in the US city of Duluth, Minnesota. In 1961 he started performing in New York and later recorded a number of albums, such as "Bringing It All Back Home," "Blood On The Tracks," "Oh Mercy" and "Time Out Of Mind" among others.

Apart from being a world-known musician, Dylan has written several books such as Tarantula, Writings and Drawings and Chronicles.

Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015 "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

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