Hello Gentle Reader,
Amitav Ghosh joins a list of writers who will be contributing to the Future Library Project. Previous contributors include, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Han Kang, Sjon, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Judith Schalansky.
Last years contributor, Tommy Orange has yet to handover his manuscript to the Future Library, due to personal and family health problems, but will reconvene the project administration to hand over the manuscript at as of yet undisclosed date.
In the terms of Amitav Ghosh is a writer renowned for being concerned with the ‘big,’ themes of literature, be it the sustained continual echoes of history and their ever-prevalent influence on the modern condition; tracing the trajectory of migration through history in reflection of the rise and fall of empires; the emerging and paramount climate catastrophe looming over horizon. Amitav Ghosh is never a writer for the quiet or small-scale drama, his works celebrate the epicist scale unapologetically. The Future Library Project’s founder Katie Paterson praised Ghosh’s literary tapestry, for having “[. . .] a rare ability to weave the intimate with the planetary, the visible with the invisible, Ghosh gives voice to the forces – human and more-than-human – that shape our shared future.”
Amitav Ghosh will submit his manuscript in either May or June of next year, where the title of his future literary work (be it prose or poetry) will be revealed, all other details will be kept under wraps, until the work is finally published decades from now, into the future.
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