Valeria Luiselli has been announced as the tenth author to contribute to Katie Paterson's Future Library project.
Luselli will submit her manuscript in the forest in May 2024. Born in Mexico City, Luselli grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India, and is an acclaimed writer of fiction and nonfiction. Author of 'Sidewalks', 'Faces in the Crowd', 'The Story of My Teeth', 'Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions', and 'Lost Children Archive', her work focuses on themes of migration, language, and identity. She won the American book award in 2018, and the following year was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, commonly known as a 'genius grant.' Previous contributors to Future Library have included Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, and Judith Schalansky, amongst others.
Future Library is a 100 year artwork for the city of Oslo in Norway. 'One thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years' time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until the year 2114. Tending the forest and ensuring its preservation for the one hundred year duration of the artwork finds a conceptual counterpoint in the invitation extended to each writer: to conceive and produce a work in the hope of finding a receptive reader in an unknown future.'
For more information about this years' author, and to learn more about Future Library, please visit the links below.
