STOCKHOLM: American music legend Bob Dylan on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that stunned prize watchers.

Dylan, 75, was honored "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.

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