Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.