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Detailed explanation-1: -Prize announcement Announcement of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan, presented by Professor Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 13 October 2016.

Detailed explanation-2: -On Thursday morning, Ladbrokes’ favourite to take the prize – at 4/1 – was the hugely popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. Murakami was followed by another regular contender, the Syrian poet Adonis, at 6/1, with Philip Roth – despite the American novelist’s recent retirement from novel writing – at 7/1.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the Swedish academy’s official statement as to why they awarded the songwriter the award, they said they awarded him the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Gurnah, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in October for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”, was speaking during his Nobel lecture on Tuesday.