Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday in awarding the 8 million Swedish crown ($927,740) prize.
The prize is worth 8 million Swedish crown ($927,740). Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, Bob Dylan took his name from poet Dylan Thomas and was heavily inspired by the Beat generation poets and thinkers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He was also heavily influenced by song-writer and figurehead of the folk-movement Woody Guthrie. Dylan has been redefining music from the 60s. A counterculture icon in the beginning, Dylan’s songs have transcended and fused genres including country, rock and roll, gospel and even jazz and continues to perform till this day.
