Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He's the first singer songwriter to receive the award.
Announcing the award from the Swedish Academy, Permanent Secretary Sara Danius said Dylan was a great poet in the English-speaking tradition.
"He is a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler," she said. "He embodies the tradition and for 55 years now he has been at it, reinventing himself constantly and creating a new identity."
"If I was a poet
And could write a fine hand
I'd write my love a letter
That she'd understand"
Bob Dylan https://t.co/ABeMMf749T— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 13, 2016
The legendary singer-songwriter has sold more than 110 million records and played thousands of gigs during his career.
John Caddell is Head of Music with TXFM and he says Dylan is a deserving winner:
The 75-year-old laureate, who began his career as the leading light of the early 1960s folk boom before embracing electric rock 'n' roll, grew up in Minnesota's iron range.
He said: "I've been around iron all my life, ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country - where you could breathe it and smell it every day. And I've always worked with it in one form or another."
