Bob Dylan has been trending worldwide today, leading many to wonder what could have happened. Thankfully, it’s amazing news!

The iconic singer-songwriter has been named the surprise winner of a Nobel Prize in literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

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The award was given in Stockholm, and the Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, said:

“Of course he deserves it – he’s got it. He’s a great poet – a great poet in the English-speaking tradition. For 54 years he’s been at it, reinventing himself constantly, creating a new identity. … But if you look far back… you discover Homer and Sappho. They wrote poetic texts which were meant to be performed, and it’s the same way for Bob Dylan. We still read Homer and Sappho, and we enjoy it. We can and should read him.”

So well-deserved! Congrats!

Source: Noisey