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13th Oct 2016

Bob Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for literature and no one is quite sure why

Yes, *that* Bob Dylan.

Carl Anka

Congratulations to Bob Dylan, who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year.

The legendary singer songwriter picked up the gong this year for…

*looks at notes on hand*

*checks Wikipedia*

*checks Nobel Prize website*

Ah here we are…. the legendary singer songwriter picked up the gong this year for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Nobel Foundation, said Dylan had been chosen because he was “a great poet in the English speaking tradition”.

“For 54 years now he’s been at it reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity,” she told reporters in Stockholm, Sweden.

Bob Dylan, the songwriter, has picked up a Nobel Prize for literature and no one is quite sure why.

Bob Dylan, the songwriter, was a rank outsider for the Nobel Prize and has somehow managed to win.

Bob Dylan, the songwriter, who fake deep people and your Dad quote constantly when they they want to put down rap music, has somehow managed to win a Nobel Prize for literature.

Bob Dylan, a man who is undoubtedly a critically important pop culture figure, but has only written one novel that was very very bad, has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for literature.

https://twitter.com/TheWorkshyFop/status/786523654909784064

Bob Dylan, the songwriter, has somehow managed to turn Haruki Murakami and Ngungi Wa’Thiongo, two of the greatest modern novelists, into Leonardo DiCaprio at the Oscars.

Bob Dylan, the songwriter, has made us use a Leonardo DiCaprio Oscars joke in the year of our Lord 2016.

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We got their in the end boy. We got there in the end.

Bob Dylan. Songwriter. Nobel Prize. For Literature.

https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/786523127564021760

Still, at least Gary Lineker is pleased.

Congratulations to Bob Dylan.

https://twitter.com/wordsbydan/status/786524015242448896

FFL new

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