‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library
The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project
September 2022
Judith Schalansky is ninth author to write secret work for Future Library
The German author’s contribution will remain unseen, alongside contributions from authors including Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, until 2114
June 2022
The Guardian view on Oslo’s Future Library: hope in practice
Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
August 2021
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s next work won’t be read by anyone until 2114
The Zimbabwean writer joins authors including including Margaret Atwood and Ocean Vuong who have agreed to lock away new writing in the Future Library
August 2020
'You'll have to die to get these texts': Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114
Vietnamese-American author and poet joins Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Karl Ove Knausgård to lock away work in Norway to be published in 94 years’ time
October 2019
Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work to remain unseen until 2114
After concluding his bestselling My Struggle sequence, he will write a work for the Future Library, alongside previous contributors Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell
May 2019
Han Kang hands over book to remain unseen until 2114
Novelist presented the Future Library manuscript wrapped in a ceremonial cloth as used in South Korean rites marking birth and death
August 2018
Han Kang to bury next book for almost 100 years in Norwegian forest
Prize-winning South Korean author joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell as a contributor to Future Library project
October 2017
Elif Shafak joins Future Library, writing piece to be unveiled in 2114
The Turkish novelist follows Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sjón in creating work for publishing project that will only be printed 97 years from now
October 2016
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Sjón: why Oslo’s Future Library is a fairytale come true
Sjón is Future Library's next recruit to become a 22nd-century author
May 2016
David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years
Author of Cloud Atlas delivers his new work – which won’t be read until 2114 – to Oslo’s Nordmarka forest as part of the Future Library project
May 2015
Into the woods: Margaret Atwood reveals her Future Library book, Scribbler Moon
We follow Atwood through a wet forest in Norway as she hands over the manuscript for a book that won’t be read for 100 years. Plus: David Mitchell is named as the project’s next writer
September 2014
Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century
Novelist says it is ‘delicious’ to be first contributor to the Future Library, which will compile 100 texts for publication in 2114
