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Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the first American winner since Toni Morrison in 1993, according to NPR.
Bob Dylan has been an inspirational icon in the entertainment world for over five decades. His music is known for its diversity, with influences from folk, blues, rock, country and gospel genres. Dylan previously won 11 Grammys as well as an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. The New York Times reports he was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Dylan’s Nobel Prize win has surprised some, as the honor usually goes to a novelist. With the award, Dylan joins the ranks of renowned American-based writers William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danis made the announcement in a public event on Thursday, October 13.
“He is a great poet in the English speaking tradition and he is a wonderful sampler – a very original sampler,” Danis said said via the Wall Street Journal. “He embodies the tradition and for 54 years now he has been at it and reinventing himself constantly … reinventing himself creating a new identity.”
Watch the rest of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize announcement and Sara Danis’ interview in the Wall Street Journal video above!
