diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ddbfa81..fdaf6e3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import platform
+import glob
+import codecs
+import re
 
 try:
     from setuptools import setup, Extension
 except ImportError:
     from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 
-import glob
-
 try:
     import Cython.Compiler.Main as cython_compiler
 
@@ -63,6 +64,15 @@ cchardet_module = Extension(
 def read(f):
     return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), f)).read().strip()
 
+
+with codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'src', 'cchardet', 'version.py'), 'r',
+                 'latin1') as fp:
+    try:
+        version = re.findall(r"^__version__ = '([^']+)'\r?$",
+                             fp.read(), re.M)[0]
+    except IndexError:
+        raise RuntimeError('Unable to determine version.')
+
 setup(
     name='cchardet',
     author='PyYoshi',
diff --git a/src/cchardet/__init__.py b/src/cchardet/__init__.py
index 690f162..3370e04 100644
--- a/src/cchardet/__init__.py
+++ b/src/cchardet/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# coding: utf-8
-
 from cchardet import _cchardet
-
+from .version import __version__
 
 def detect(msg):
     """
diff --git a/src/cchardet/version.py b/src/cchardet/version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a72d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cchardet/version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = '1.1.0'