Disney(LOS ANGELES) — Carrie Fisher was posthumously honored with a Grammy nomination in the spoken-word category for her 2016 audiobook recording of her memoir, The Princess Diarist.
The Princess Diarist is an unflinching look at Fisher’s time filming Star Wars — including the revelation of her brief affair with costar Harrison Ford when she was 19 years old.
The actress/author was previously nominated for a spoken word Grammy in 2009 for her book Wishful Drinking. Earlier this year, she received a posthumous Emmy nomination for her guest role on the Amazon comedy Catastrophe.
Fisher’s competition in the spoken-word category includes Senator Bernie Sanders and actor Mark Ruffalo for Sanders’ Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In; Bruce Springsteen reading his memoir Born to Run; astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, for his book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry; and Confessions of a Serial Songwriter, by Shelly Peiken, who penned hist like Christina Aguilera’s “What a Girl Wants.”
The 60th Grammy Awards air live from New York January 28 on CBS.
Fisher will make her final appearance as General — formerly Princess — Leia in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, opening nationwide December 15.
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