This year’s Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
This is a historic (and controversial!) decision as it’s the first time this honour has ever gone to a musician. The Swedish Academy credited Dylan with ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’.
Here’s a short round-up of some interesting articles from around the internet about the news:
- Our favourite Dylan lyrics (via The New Yorker)
- Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize is both shocking and deserved (via Vulture)
- In today’s ‘political world,’ Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize sends a strong message (via Forbes)
- Salman Rushdie, Kate Tempest and more pay tribute to Bob Dylan (via the Guardian)
- Bob Dylan deserves that Nobel Prize (via MTV)
- Bob Dylan shouldn’t win the Nobel prize for literature (via The Atlantic)
- Bob Dylan, the musician: America’s great one-man songbook (via NY Times)
- Bob Dylan the writer: an authentic American voice (via NY Times)
And we’re sure you can expect plenty more to come.
