Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks during a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 (Lennart Preiss/ Associated Press).

By CBC News

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold the rights to his memoirs and could have a manuscript ready by March, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper.

Assange, 39, is currently on bail and living under house arrest in Britain as he fights extradition to Sweden on alleged sex offences.

The Guardian reports he has sold the publishing rights to his memoir to Canongate in Britain and Knopf in the U.S.

News of the memoirs leaked via a tweet from Spanish publisher Random House Mondadori. Canongate and Knopf are both part of the Random House stable. The publishing houses neither confirmed nor denied the report.

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