Source: www.cbc.ca - Thursday, October 13, 2016 Bob Dylan performs during the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles in 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." The 75-year-old singer-songwriter is one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, with more than 100 million records sold. He has published six collections of his lyrics and six books collecting his drawing and paintings. A memoir, Chronicles was published in 2005. It was the first volume of a planned three-volume series. The second and third instalment are yet to be published. His only work of fiction, , an experimental work that combined prose and poetry, was written in 1966. 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. "Dylan has the status of an icon," the Nobel Prize website stated. "His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a steady stream of secondary literature." Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, compared Dylan to the epic Greek poets Homer and Sappho. "They wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, they were to meant to be performed, often with instruments," she said. "But we still read Homer and Sappho and enjoy it... It's the same way with Bob Dylan." "He can be read and should be re All Related
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