News from the Division of Languages and Literature

“Author Valeria Luiselli’s next manuscript will remain a secret—sealed, unpublished, and unread—until the year 2114,” writes Ella Creamer for the Guardian. As part of the Future Library, a project created by artist Katie Peterson, Valeria Luiselli, Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature, will contribute a manuscript that will not be published until 100 years have passed since the inception of the Library. Luiselli told the Guardian that the invitation to contribute to Future Library was moving to her, and how the challenged her “to rearticulate [her] relationship to writing.” “This is a piece that no one I know will read – maybe my baby daughter, because she’s two, and she would be 93 – so it could be,” Luiselli said. “But other than her, I don’t know anyone that would read it. So there’s a freedom in that.”