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Fiction Awards | Winning Authors & Books: Nobel Prize for Literature

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The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature recognizes outstanding contributions to literature. It is awarded each year to authors, rather than individual books, to honor a writer's entire body of work

Books by Nobel Laureates in the Collection

Media by Nobel Winners in the Collection

American singer/songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the prize in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." He is the only musician with that honor.

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