Sjón is Future Library's next recruit to become a 22nd-century author

The Icelandic writer joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell in creating a work to be locked away in Norway until 2114, as part of Katie Paterson’s art installation

The acclaimed Icelandic author Sjón has been named as the third of 100 writers who will contribute to artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library, an artwork spanning 100 years which will see each manuscript locked away unseen until 2114, when the collection of 100 texts is finally revealed.

Margaret Atwood was Future Library’s first contributor, handing over her piece of writing, Scribbler Moon, to Paterson in 2015. David Mitchell followed up this spring with From Me Flows What You Call Time. Both authors passed on their manuscripts in the middle of Oslo’s Nordmarka forest, where Paterson planted 1,000 trees in 2014. In 2114, the trees will be cut down to make the paper on which the 100 manuscripts will be printed – and, finally, read.

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Am I a writer of my times? Who do I write for? Will there be people in the future who understand the language?

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