This story is from October 21, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard contributes to the Future Library

Karl Ove Knausgaard's next book will be written for the Future Library and won't be seen until 2114.
Karl Ove Knausgaard contributes to the Future Library
Karl Ove Knausgaard's next book will be written for the Future Library and won't be seen until 2114.
Knausgaard is best known for his six-volume autobiographical novel called 'My Struggle'. Written in Norwegian, the book has now been translated into 22 languages and even had a theatrical adaptation.
Now he is going to write for the Future Library project.
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The project has taken a novel by popular author for every year from 2014 and will continue til 2114. Finally, at the end of the century, all those manuscripts will be published.
Knausgaard told The Guardian he has already started writing this manuscript, though he would not reveal any details. Even though nobody who is alive today could get to read his words, he felt the same “moral and ethical responsibility” to those he wrote about.
“You can’t really afford to think about readers anyway when you’re writing, you have to be free of those thoughts,” he said. But he added: “If I wanted to write now about the people who surround me … you should think it would be possible to push the limit of honesty 100% because they won’t read it. But there’s no difference, really. You have the same obligations,” he went on to say.
Some other authors who have written for Future Library are Margaret Atwood , Elif Shafak and David Mitchell.
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