1/12 23 May, 1966: American rock singer and songwriter Bob Dylan playing the harmonica with his hands cupped over a microphone during a press conference at the Hotel George V, Paris, France. He wears sunglasses and holds a cigarette.

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2/12 November 1965: American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan (centre) and British rock musician Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones) (left) sit at a table during a record release party for the Young Rascals, held by Sid Bernstein at the Phone Booth nightclub, New York City.

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3/12 Bob Dylan gives a press conference in the George V hotel before his concert at the Olympia the day after. He is carrying his lucky wood doll.

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4/12 Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing in Washington DC during the March on Washington civil rights rally.

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5/12 Dylan backstage at his famous Free Trade Hall Concert, drinking cup of tea

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6/12 A headshot of American singer Bob Dylan wearing sunglasses.

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7/12 Dylan at the Poplar Creek Music Theater on June 10, 1981 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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8/12 Like a rolling stone: Singer Bob Dylan's European tour is gathering lots of singers from 1960s.

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9/12 In concert at the 1994 Woodstock Festival.

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10/12 Bob Dylan at Slane Castle, July 1984.

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11/12 Dylan at "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement".

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12/12 Dylan receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on May 29, 2012 in Washington, DC.

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In pictures: Nobel laureate Bob Dylan through the years

Catch Team @CatchNews | Updated on: 13 October 2016, 23:10 IST

Bob Dylan, the 75-year-old folk and rock legend received the Nobel prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Dylan, whose original name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, has recorded a large number of albums revolving around topics like the social condition of man, religion and love.

His songs include the unforgettable \'Blowin\' In The Wind\' and \'The Times They Are A-Changin\'.

His body of work, which the Swedish Academy described as "having a tremendous impact on popular music", include Bringing It All back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, Oh Mercy, time Out of Mind, Love and Theft and Modern Times.

He is the first American to win the prize since the novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993.

The Nobel comes with a prize of 8 million Swedish kronor, or just over $900,000. It is given for a lifetime writing rather than for a single work.

(Photos curated by Priyata Brajabasi. Text by Sehar Qazi)