'Greatest living poet' Bob Dylan wins Nobel literature prize
Stockholm
BOB Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that gave a singer-songwriter one of the world's most prestigious cultural awards.
His songs such as Blowin' in the Wind, Masters of War, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, The Times They Are a-Changin, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like a Rolling Stone captured a spirit of rebellion, dissent and independence.
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