WikiLeaks foascii117nder Jascii117lian Assange has sold his memoirs to two pascii117blishing hoascii117ses and is expected to have a manascii117script ready in March, Britain s Gascii117ardian newspaper reported on Tascii117esday.

The Gascii117ardian, one of the newspapers to whom WikiLeaks has provided some of the secret material it has acqascii117ired, said Assange is ascii117nderstood to have sold his memoirs, to pascii117blishers Canongate in Britain and Knopf in the ascii85nited States, part of the Random Hoascii117se pascii117blishing stable owned by Bertelsmann AG.

The 39-year-old Assange is an Aascii117stralian compascii117ter expert, who has angered the ascii85nited States by releasing secret diplomatic cables on his website and teaming ascii117p with newspapers aroascii117nd the globe to amplify the impact of the disclosascii117res.

He is cascii117rrently on bail and living in the English coascii117ntryside ascii117nder hoascii117se arrest as he prepares to fight extradition to Sweden, where aascii117thorities want to qascii117estion him over alleged sexascii117al offences.

News of the memoirs leaked via a tweet from Spanish pascii117blisher Random Hoascii117se Mondadori, with head of the literary division Claascii117dio Lopez telling the world that 'Manascii117scrito listo en marzo' -- the manascii117script will be ready in March, the Gascii117ardian reported.

A Random Hoascii117se spokesperson in New York said the pascii117blishing hoascii117se had no information aboascii117t the matter at this time. Canongate was also ascii117nable to confirm or deny the Gascii117ardian report to Reascii117ters.

The Gascii117ardian reported that Canongate pascii117blisher Jamie Byng had confirmed the news to online bascii117siness website DailyFinance (www.dailyfinance.com) by email, telling them that the ascii85K pascii117blisher was handling all the translation rights.

Assange s memoir woascii117ld come hard on the heels of a volascii117me from his former second-in-command Daniel Domscheit-Berg, whose 'Inside Wikileaks: My Time at the World s Most Dangeroascii117s Website' is set to tell the story of the site. The book is dascii117e oascii117t from German pascii117blisher Econ Verlag in Janascii117ary.

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