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

Yes, *that* Bob Dylan.

Carl Anka

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

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.”

BREAKING 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” pic.twitter.com/XYkeJKRfhv

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 13, 2016

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.

Someone just shouted BOB DYLAN in the newsroom and everyone thought he was dead. Still, big news. #NobelPrize

— Nick Dastoor (@NickyD) October 13, 2016

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

These were the five favourites to win: pic.twitter.com/YRt0CjrhdW

— Mr. Reads (@ImAlexReads) October 13, 2016

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.

Congratulations to Bob Dylan! pic.twitter.com/sg7EEOHJNZ

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) October 13, 2016

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

And his novel is so famously bad that he was rumoured to have faked his own death to get out of the contract

— Thom (@TheWorkshyFop) October 13, 2016

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.

Haruki Murakami did not win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ngungi Wa'Thiongo did not win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bob Dylan did.

— JJ Bola (@JJ_Bola) October 13, 2016

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