Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016, announced October 13, 2016. Bob Dylan, “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Bob Dylan: born 1941, Duluth, MN, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).