Singer Bob Dylan awarded 2016 Nobel prize for literature
The Swedish Academy said the award has been given to him "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
The award has been conferred on him breaking the tradition of it being given to novelists and poets.
Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 and began his musical career in 1959, playing in coffee houses in Minnesota.
Much of his best-known work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal historian of America's troubles.
Songs like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They are A-Changin' became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements.
Dylan's many albums include Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, Blonde on Blonde in 1966 and Blood on the Tracks in 1975.
His influence crossed the limits of the US and spread across the globe.
The award will be presented alongside this year's other five Nobel Prizes on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's 1896 death.
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