Has Bob Dylan won any major literary awards?

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Bob Dylan

b. 24 May 1941 · From United States

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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music since the 1960s. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest.…

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Robert Allen Zimmerman, Robert Dylan

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Has Bob Dylan won any major literary awards?
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."