Penguin-Random House has announced that Barbra Streisand will publish her memoir later this year. Although My Name Is Barbra won’t be released in November, the pre-sale has already begun. Streisand is a living legend, a woman who has excelled in all areas of entertainment in her sixty-year career and has one of the most recognizable voices in the history of pop music. In her book, for the first time, she tells the story of her life and amazing career, from her childhood in Brooklyn to her first nightclub gigs in New York, her performance on Funny Girl, and a long string of hits.

New award for women writers

Britain has just launched a new award for women writers, the Women’s Award for Non-Fiction. Seven years after the introduction of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a new study has found that women writers of non-fiction are less likely to be awarded for their work than their male counterparts. The award will be awarded annually and will be open to all women writers from around the world as long as their books are published in the UK and written in English. The winner will receive £30,000 and a statuette named “Charlotte” as the award is presented by the Charlotte Aitken Trust, a charity set up by former literary agent Gillon Aiken in memory of his late daughter.

“Immortal” Liosa

At the age of 86, Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate (2010) Mario Vargas-Llosa was elected a member of the highly selective Académie française. The Académie française, founded in 1635, has in the past accepted members from other countries (only two), but Llosa is the only one who did not write in French, although he worked in the Spanish office of Agence France as a young man. -Click. He is considered one of the most influential Latin American writers, and after this distinction he is a member of three academies: the Peruvian Academy of Languages ​​(1977) and the Royal Spanish Academy (1994).