American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, organizers announced early Thursday — marking the first time the prestigious award has gone to someone known primarily as a musician.
The Swedish Academy cited the 75-year-old music icon for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the award to a genre such as pop music.
Literature was the last of this year's Nobel prizes to be awarded.
Three researchers shared the prize for chemistry for their work on molecular machines, while the medicine prize went to a Japanese biologist who discovered the process by which a cell breaks down and recycles content. The physics prize was shared by three British-born scientists for theoretical discoveries that shed light on strange states of matter.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end that country's length civil war. Two U.S.-based professors won the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for studying how to best design contracts.
The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will.
Each prize is worth the equivalent of about $1.2 million Cdn (eight million kronor).
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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