What will Karl Ove Knausgaard say 100 years from now?
The Norwegian is the latest author to be added to the Future Library, an art project involving a spruce forest, paper and secret words
In the Nordmarka forest in Oslo there are 1,000 spruce trees. Since they were planted in 2014, they have been doing what all trees are supposed to do – slowly taking root, reaching up to the sky, photosynthesising and so on. But unlike many other trees, the fate of those 1,000 spruces is known and the date of their end is predestined.
The trees that make up the forest within the forest are part of a “living, organic artwork unfolding over 100 years”, created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson and known as the Future Library. In 2114 the spruce trees will be cut down and turned into paper on which manuscripts contributed by authors including Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Elif Shafak will be published...
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