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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan, 75, "is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition." She drew parallels between his work and that of ancient Greek poets. View image on Twitter  Follow The Nobel Prize   ✔ @NobelPrize BREAKING 2016  # NobelPrize  in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” 4:00 PM - 13 Oct 2016  ·  Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden     22,131 22,131 Retweets     14,433 14,433 likes "If you look back, far back, 2,500 years or so, you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, that were meant to be performed, often with instruments -- and...