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This year’s Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

This is a historic (and controversial!) decision as it’s the first time this honour has ever gone to a musician. The Swedish Academy credited Dylan with ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’.

Here’s a short round-up of some interesting articles from around the internet about the news:

And we’re sure you can expect plenty more to come.