Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature

US singer-songwriter edges out Japanese author Haruki Murakami with his 'new poetic expressions'

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Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

The honour was announced this morning by the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius.

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