Margaret Atwood’s new work will remain unseen for a century | Books | theguardian.com

Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century | Books | theguardian.com

The Future Library project, conceived by the award-winning young Scottish artist Katie Paterson, began, quietly, this summer, with the planting of a forest of 1,000 trees in Nordmarka, just outside Oslo. It will slowly unfold over the next century. Every year until 2114, one writer will be invited to contribute a new text to the collection, and in 2114, the trees will be cut down to provide the paper for the texts to be printed – and, finally, read.

What an unbelievably cool project. As a writer, it would be my dream to be a part of such a thing.