Alan Rickman’s diaries to be published into a book

The diaries of the late actor Alan Rickman are to be compiled and subsequently published reported The Guardian. The book will include 27 handwritten volumes of his “witty, gossipy and utterly candid” thoughts about his career and life spanning more than 25 years. 

The rights of the Harry Potter actor’s diaries have been acquired by the publisher Canongate. The book that will release in the autumn of 2022 is called The Diaries of Alan Rickman.

The actor began writing these diaries by hand in the early 1990s, with the intention that they would one day be published. At that point he had started to gain prominence as an actor, building his reputation at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on stage as Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He also became a household name for his cinematic turns as the sardonic villain Hans Gruber in 1988’s Die Hard, the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and as Juliet Stevenson’s dead husband in the 1991 supernatural romance Truly, Madly, Deeply.

For the next 25 years, he continued to write his diaries, while also starring in films such as Galaxy Quest, the Harry Potter franchise, Sense and Sensibility, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Love, Actually. He kept on writing wrote until his death in 2016, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.

The Diaries of Alan Rickman will be edited by Alan Taylor, editor of the Scottish Review of Books, who put together The Country Diaries, a treasury of pastoral journals by the likes of Beatrix Potter, Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles, for Canongate.

“I’m delighted that Canongate will be publishing Alan’s diaries, and couldn’t have wished for a finer appointment of editor than Alan Taylor,” said Rima Horton, Rickman’s widow, in an interview with The Guardian. “The diaries reveal not just Alan Rickman the actor, but the real Alan – his sense of humour, his sharp observation, his craftsmanship and his devotion to the arts.”

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