On October 13th 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to singer, songwriter, Bob Dylan. The win makes Mr Dylan the first musician and the first American to win the award since it was bestowed on novelist Tony Morrison won in 1993. The Honor also puts him in the company of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Mr Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth Minnesota in 1941. He started playing guitar at age 14 and used that skill to join local high school bands. Later, he changed his name to Dylan after the poet Dylan Thomas and began to perform folk music. He he moved to New York in 1961, and a year later he released his first album entitled "Bob Dylan."
As a prolific singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist, Mr Dylan went on to produce many successful albums including, "Blonde on Blonde, "Blood on the Tracks," and Highway 61 Revisited. He has had many hits including, "Blowin In the Wind," and the iconic "Like a Rolling stone." He once credited himself with ending the days of Tin Pan Alley by opening the door for other artists to record their own songs.
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