Bob Dylan
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The Permanent Secretary
Press release
13 October 2016
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
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