Future Library

Future Library is a 100 year public artwork unfolding in Oslo by artist Katie Paterson. [email protected]

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.

The winning 25 concepts will be included in a Long Now print book and digital anthology. The top 3 will be developed into working prototypes.

Submissions close in two weeks, deadline June 5. Read the full prompt and apply here: https://t.co/EdYPtx8ux7

[Anne Beate Hovind @annebeatehovind]

The Library No One Alive Will Read https://t.co/LYypTxARzA via @ABCaustralia @FuturelibraryNO

[Kindle Cast @kindlecastindia]

“How do you write for readers you’ll never meet?”
Amitav Ghosh on Norway’s Future Library, 100-year thinking, and the unsettling challenge of imagining a world a century from now.
A stunning meditation on literary legacy.
#AmitavGhosh #FutureLibrary #Literature

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Watch - Amitav Ghosh episode. How seeing his mother’s near-death experience contributed to a book that takes us into past lives and ‘cases of the reincarnation type’

https://t.co/M54cAeoVdQ

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Read Amitav Ghosh here, as the Weekend Interview @business ⬇️

https://t.co/yP4N2sjNF2

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

For Earth Day 02026, we're thinking about 02114. That's the year Katie Paterson's @FuturelibraryNO will finally open: a library for readers who haven’t been born yet.

Artist and Long Now council member Katie Paterson has spent the last decade building the Future Library in Oslo, Norway. Over the next 100 years one writer every year will contribute a text. The writings are held in trust, unread and unpublished, until the year 02114. A forest was planted to supply paper for the books when they’re ready to publish, a century from now.

So far the library includes works from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Han Kang, Karl Ove Knausgård and more. More about the project here: https://t.co/WQgUlxYdN2

[Martin Bright @martinbright]

Great to meet @annebeatehovind in the @FuturelibraryNO thanks to @vanessathorpe.

[Kanika Sharma @kanika4444]

“Once upon a time” will mean different in the 22nd century. Future generations will finally read secret books by @GhoshAmitav, @MargaretAtwood, @Elif_Safak & 97 others—all kept at @FuturelibraryNO. Here is my @htTweets interview with @annebeatehovind, whom I met @JaipurLitFest

[manjula narayan @utterflea]

“Our relation to time has become so short term”
- @annebeatehovind of the Future Library Project talks to @kanika4444
https://t.co/ClaZnFEqQy

[Future Library @FuturelibraryNO]

Wonderful chat @JBhattacharji @TOIPlus @TimesSpecialTOI @annebeatehovind @MargaretAtwood https://t.co/SLywGTn08T

[Tolga Acaroğulları @Acarogullari10]

Elif Şafak’ın da aralarında bulunduğu 100 yıllık dev proje ❗️💯

Norveç’te 2114 yılında tamamlanacak olan “Geleceğin Kütüphanesi” (Future Library) projesi, 100 yıl boyunca hiç kimse tarafından okunmayacak bir edebi arşiv olarak kurgulandı.

Sanatçı Katie Paterson tarafından 2014 yılında başlatılan proje için Oslo yakınlarındaki bir ormana tam 1.000 adet ladin fidanı dikildi. Her yıl dünya edebiyatından bir yazar, içeriği mühürlü ve gizli kalmak kaydıyla yazdıkları bir eserlerini bu kütüphaneye teslim ediyor. Margaret Atwood, Elif Şafak, Han Kang ve David Mitchell gibi isimlerin bugün Oslo'daki Deichman Kütüphanesi'nde, "Sessiz Oda" adı verilen özel bir alanda bekleyen eserleri, ancak 2114 yılında fidanların kesilip kağıda dönüştürülmesiyle basılabilecek.

Bugün yaşayan hiçbir insanın tamamını okuyamayacağı bu 100 kitaplık koleksiyon, ancak bir asır sonraki kuşaklar için gün yüzüne çıkacak.

[Greedysouth @greedysouth]

#Throwback: In 2021 Tsitsi Dangarembga became the 8th writer selected for the Future Library project - an organic artwork by Scottish artist Katie Paterson, which is set to see books by selected authors only being published in the year 2114.

Read more:
https://t.co/jm9rWvnu5b

[Norway in India @norwayinindia]

Another successful year for 🇳🇴Norway at @JaipurLitFest! Many thanks to @TeamworkArts, @SanjoyRoyTWA, @NamitaGokhale_ @DalrympleWill, and to our wonderful speakers @annebeatehovind @FuturelibraryNO, Oliver Møystad @Norwegianbooks, and Ivo de Figueiredo.

[Anne Beate Hovind @annebeatehovind]

As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future @GhoshAmitav @FuturelibraryNO https://t.co/PYRlfq6xmv

[Anne Beate Hovind @annebeatehovind]

A 10,000-year clock, a (@FuturelibraryNO) library for tomorrow: Check out grand creative projects set in the future @NorwayMFA @NorwayAmbIndia @JaipurLitFest

https://t.co/GFAPMLxn1h

[Anne Beate Hovind @annebeatehovind]

@GhoshAmitav .....to write something speculative, but the world will be so profoundly changed in 80 years that whatever you write will seem hilarious. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself in that way.@FuturelibraryNO @NorwayAmbIndia @NorwayMFA https://t.co/1uJB6d0Mif

[Sudeep Sen @sudeepsennet]

What a fine evening today with Amitav Ghosh at the Norwegian Ambassador's Residence celebrating the publication of his new novel, 'Ghost Eye' (HarperCollins India) and his forthcoming contribution to Noway's 'Future Library' in Oslo.

@FuturelibraryNO

[Ambassador May-Elin Stener @NorwayAmbIndia]

A delight to host @GhoshAmitav in conversation with Director of @FuturelibraryNO @annebeatehovind. Thanks @HarperCollinsIN for the collaboration. Ghosh will contribute a manuscript to Future Library in Norway, which will remain unseen till 2114! (1/3)

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Here it comes... Book of Lives... November 4. (And yesterday someone spelled it "Book of Lies." Take your pick.)

[Elusive Moose @elusive_moose]

Next manuscript by Amitav Ghosh to be kept sealed for 89 years @FuturelibraryNO https://t.co/AhBEHB9BVL via @guardian #Norway #books 📚