Most of the time when the Nobel Prize for Literature is announced, the typical reaction is “wait, who is that?”
2016 was not one of those years since there are very few people in the internet connected world who do not know who Bob Dylan is.
Whether Bob Dylan counts as literature, and if he does, whether he deserves to share the category of American winners with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Toni Morrison we will leave to minds greater than our own.