2016 Nobel Literature Prize - US Singer/Songwriter Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Literature Prize Thursday Oct 13,2016

American music legend Bob Dylan (75)on Thursday Oct 13,2016 won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers. 

Bob Dylan was honoured “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy said. 

The choice was met by gasps and a long round of applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. 

The folk singer has been mentioned in Nobel speculation in past years, but was never seen as a serious contender. 

The Academy’s permanent secretary Sara Danius said Dylan’s songs were “poetry for the ears.” 

The Nobel award is the latest accolade for a singer who has come a long way from his humble beginnings as Robert Allen Zimmerman, born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, who taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and piano. 

In 2015, the prize went to Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich, for her documentary—style narratives based on witness testimonies. 

Dylan will take home the eight million kronor (USD 906,000 or 822,000 euros) prize sum

The 2016 laureates will receive their awards — a gold medal and a diploma — at a formal ceremony in Stockholm,Sweden  as tradition dictates on December 10, 2016 the anniversary of the death of prize creator Alfred Nobel. 

A separate ceremony is held in Oslo,Norway for the peace prize laureate on the same day, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee grants that award.

Bob Dylan (75), born in Duluth, Minnesota, grew up in a Jewish middle-class family in the city of Hibbing, the Academy said in an official statement.

Bob Dylan has also published experimental works like Taran-tula (1971) and the collection Writings and Drawings (1973). His autobiography Chronicles (2004), depicts "memories from the early years in New York and which provides glimpses of his life at the center of popular culture," the official statement by the Academy further highlights

Some of his memorable albums are: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), High-way 61 Revisited (1965), Blonde On Blonde (1996), Blood On The Tracks (1975), Oh Mercy (1989), Time Out Of Mind (1997) and Modern Times (2006)

Bob Dylan first ever to win a Nobel Prize,Pulitzer Prize,Grammy Award and Oscar Award

Note

Nobel Prize winners 2016

Physiology or Medicine Nobel

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.” The professor is currently with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. 

Physics Nobel

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.” One half of the prize goes to Prof. Thouless and the rest to Prof. Haldane and Prof. Kosterlitz.

 

Chemistry Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for developing molecular machines.

Peace Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end his country's 50-year civil war. 

Economics Nobel

British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their theories “are valuable to the understanding of real-life contracts and institutions, as well as potential pitfalls in contract design.”