Legendary US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for creating ‘new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’.
75-year-old Dylan is the first songwriter to win the prestigious honour for literature, and also the first American to win it after Toni Morrison.
As soon as the announcement was made, Twitter exploded with congratulations and wishes from fiends, fellow musicians and fans
Musicians
George Harrison, Beatles
Zeeshan Zaidi, Musician
Indian Artistes
A.R. Rahman, Musician
Pritish Nandy, Filmmaker/Journalist/Activist
Vishal Dadlani, Musician
Rishi Kapoor, Actor
Atul Kasbekar, Photographer
Massive fan of the ‘singer songwriter’
These are the poets of our timeAnd then there’s #BobDylan …Sigh 😍👏🏽👍🏽#NobelPrizeLiterature— atul kasbekar (@atulkasbekar) October 13, 2016
Shobhaa De, Novelist and Columnist
Rajdeep Sardesai, Journalist
Adnan Sami, Singer
Suhel Seth, Columnist
Editors’ Speak
Pamela Paul, Editor, New York Times Book Review
Nicholas Thompson, Former Senior Editor, The New Yorker
Yoni Applebaum, Bureau Chief, Washington, The Atlantic
Politically Correct
Vasundhara Raje, CM Rajasthan
Monica Lewinsky, activist and former White House intern
Milind Deora, MP and former Union Minister
Nirupama Rao, Former Indian External Affairs Secretary
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