Carrie Fisher honoured with posthumous Grammy Award for best spoken word album

The late actress was best known for her role as Princess Leila in the Star Wars franchise
Carrie Fisher played the iconic role of Princess Leia
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Safeeyah Kazi29 January 2018
The Weekender

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Carrie Fisher has been honoured with a posthumous Grammy for the best spoken word album.

The late Star Wars actress was awarded her first Grammy Award at Sunday night’s glitzy ceremony, following her death in December 2016.

Fisher won the prize for best spoken word album for her audiobook recording of The Princess Diarist.

The album was a memoir pulled from her diaries during her time shooting the first Star Wars film where she portrayed the iconic Princess Leia.

Published just five weeks before her death in December 2016, the memoir stole the spotlight for the details it divulged.

Included in the contents were details of an on-set affair with Fisher’s co-star Harrison Ford.

Fisher beat out other major contenders in the category including Bruce Springsteen for Born to Run, Neil deGrasse Tyson for Astrophysics For People in a Hurry, Shelly Peiken for Confessions of a Serial Songwriter, and Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo for Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.

The news comes after Fisher’s co-star Mark Hamill praised people for using Princess Leia signs at the recent Women’s March, saying that the late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher would be “proud”.

Fisher’s iconic character inspired slogans and outfits for the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up campaign.

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