Why did the musician Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Songs as Poetry
Why did the musician Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Literature went to someone who didn't write novels or poetry collections. He wrote songs. His name is Bob Dylan, and the world did a giant double-take. A Nobel? For a guy with a guitar and a raspy voice? Stick around — there's a good reason.
First, who is Bob Dylan? He's an American musician who started out in the 1960s, playing folk songs in small coffeehouses. He had wild hair, a harmonica clipped near his mouth, and a way of writing words that stuck in people's heads for sixty years.
