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GK QUESTION#1459

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to which American songwriter and performer, sparking widespread debate?

  1. ABruce Springsteen
  2. BBob DylanCorrect answer
  3. CPaul Simon
  4. DLeonard Cohen
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B. Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Nobel Prize in Literature 2025, was given to “László Krasznahorkai” (Gyula, Hungary), “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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