VAUSE: For the first time, a song writer has won the Nobel Prize for literature. Bob Dylan's name had been whispered as a possible winner for years, but still he was a surprise choice and settles the debate, lyrics are poetry. Here's Paul Newton.</s>PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Folk singer, song writer, modern-day minstrel, to many baby boomers, Bob Dylan is the voice of their generation. But his winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature stunned the Stockholm crowd at the announcement.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bob Dylan.</s>NEWTON: Mentioned in Nobel speculation for years but never seen as a serious contender, Dylan is the first song writer to win the prestigious award.</s>ANNOUNCER: For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.</s>NEWTON: And Dylan has created so much poetry for the years.</s>NEWTON: From "Blowin' in the Wind" --</s>NEWTON: -- to "Subterranean Homesick Blues" --</s>NEWTON: -- to his transformative rock anthem "Like a Rolling Stone." The Nobel is just the latest honor for this performer. He has won 10 Grammy awards, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he's also received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and sold tens of millions of records in a career spanning more than five decades. Now 75 years old, Dylan performed this past weekend at the U.S. Musical Festival dubbed Old-Chella (ph) and shows no signs of letting up. Paula Newton, CNN.</s>VAUSE: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause. Stay with us. I'll be back with another hour of news after a short break.
Bob Dylan Receive Nobel Prize in Literature.