"For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Dylan, 75, was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the
academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as pop music.Literature Nobel facts:
Hundred and nine have been awarded the Prize from 1901.
Fourteen women have got the Prize so far.
The prize was shared four times by two persons.
The youngest laureate was Rudyard Kipling (41), best known for his The Jungle Book.
The oldest laureate was Doris Lessing. She was 88 when she was awarded the Prize in 2007.
Sixty five was the average age of the laureates the year they were awarded the Prize.
The literature award caps the 2016 Nobel season, following more than a week of announcements for the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace, with the latter going to Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end a half-century war with the FARC rebels.
The 2016 laureates will receive their awards — a gold medal and a diploma — at a formal ceremony in Stockholm as tradition dictates, on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the Prize creator Alfred Nobel.
A separate ceremony is held in Oslo for the Peace Prize laureate on the same day, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee grants that award.
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