We’re delighted to share the news that Carrie Fisher has earned a Best Spoken Word Album GRAMMY Award nomination for her narration of The Princess Diarist, published by Penguin Random House Audio.
Here’s the press release….
The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars™ movie. She rediscovered the journals she kept during the filming, which preserved plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté. Fisher recorded The Princess Diarist shortly before her passing last year along with her daughter Billie Lourd, who narrated the diary entries featured in the book.
Fisher discussed the audiobook recording in an interview on Penguin Random House Audio’s “This Is The Author” podcast, saying: “I don’t know that my mother read a lot to me when I was a kid, probably when I was a little teeny kid…but I was a big reader so she must have read to me sometimes, and I read aloud to my daughter, because I love words. I fell in love with words as a kid and the love goes on.”
The nominations were announced on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 by The Recording Academy®; the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards® will be presented Sunday, January 28, 2018 at Madison Square Garden.
This could be Carrie Fisher’s first GRAMMY Award® win; she was previously nominated in 2009 in the Best Spoken Word Album category for her memoir Wishful Drinking.
Penguin Random House Audio titles have previously received 14 GRAMMY Awards®, including last year’s Best Spoken Word Album winner, Carol Burnett’s In Such Good Company, and 42 additional GRAMMY® nominations.
The Princess Diarist By Carrie Fisher, narrated by the author and Billie Lourd, went on sale November 22, 2016. Published by Penguin Audio; also available in print from Blue Rider Press.
You can listen to a clip from the audiobook here. We’ll have everything crossed for January 28th, 2018 when the winners are announced.
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