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Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Literature Prize
October 13, 2016 10:20 AM
Legendary musician Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy recognized Dylan, 75, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.''
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Rock musician Bob Dylan performs at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angele, May 5, 2004.
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Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 13, 2016.
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Festival goers wait in line to be photographed against a billboard of Bob Dylan's album "Highway 61 Revisited" on day 1 of the 2016 Desert Trip music festival at Empire Polo Field, Oct. 7, 2016, in Indio, California.
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President Jimmy Carter, left, presents Bob Dylan with the award for 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Feb. 6, 2015.
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