Yeah! You saw and heard that right.

For the first time in the year 2016 in the most coveted and awaited list of Nobel Prize Winners stands a proud winner who isn't a writer but a musician.

The American rock legend Bob Dylan had been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for work described by Swedish Academy as "having created new poetic expression in great American song tradition".

Dylan began hus career in music in 1959, is now widely known for this works like 'Blowin' in the wind', 'Mr. Tambourine man', and 'The times they are a-changin'.

He also had many anthems of the anti-national and civil rights movements.
 
This is the second time when the academy didn't choose a fiction writer for the award.

Dylan will receive an 18 karat gold medal and a cheque of about $925,000.

Praises flowed in from all the directions as soon as he was announced the winner. "Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition. Great Choice." posted Salman Rushdie on Twitter. Chile's Prez called this honour a "joy" and said, "many fond memories from my adolescence are associated with his music."