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Detailed explanation-1: -In October, Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the prestigious award, and the first American since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993. He received the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", the award citation said.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, it certainly stirred the academic pot. He was not only the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993 but also the first songwriter to ever receive the prize.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 59-year-old author Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in October 1964. He said he always refused official distinctions and did not want to be “institutionalised”.

Detailed explanation-4: -An early theory that envy or rivalry led Nobel to omit a prize to mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler was refuted because of timing inaccuracies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Three American Laureates: From Left, William Faulkner receives the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature from King Gustaf VI of Sweden; Saul Bellow receives the 1976 award from Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf; Toni Morrison is congratulated by King Carl Gustav after she received the 1993 prize.