Ahmed Murad: The Arab world lacks an exciting novel

Sharjah (Al Ittihad)

Egyptian writer and novelist Ahmed Mourad explained that the presence of his works in the best-selling book list is caused by people looking for the teaser novel that is lacking in the Arab cultural milieu, indicating that this type of novel has changed the history of literature. across the world and has helped to create a new and advanced situation in terms of the structure of the work of fiction that relies on the imagination as its engine.
This happened during a remote dialogue session on the “Sharjah Read” platform as part of the activities of the 39th session of the Sharjah International Book Fair, moderated by Mustafa Al-Agha, in which the Egyptian novelist spoke of the novel and its relationship to cinema and the role of the imagination in creating the intellectual and aesthetic value of creative work.

An exceptional platform
At the start of the session, journalist Mustafa Al-Agha stressed that the Sharjah International Book Fair has acquired a prominent place on the Arab and international cultural scene, and that it has today become an exceptional platform that attracts around her the elite of writers. , intellectuals and creatives, explaining that the efforts of the Sharjah Book Authority have doubled its presence and impact on the Arab and global cultural movement.

At the start of the meeting, the Egyptian novelist referred to the “I Read” initiative he recently launched with the aim of discovering the talents of 20 promising short stories during the quarantine period, explaining that this initiative has published an anthology of ‘writers. texts collected under the title “Nights of the Universe”, referring to He had previously written about the epidemic in the 1919 novel when dealing with the Spanish flu, noting that he would write about Corona someday when the experience was over. finished.

History and plot
In his speech, Murad brought up the art of the novel, which he described as a great responsibility and a close connection with the characters, as he put it: “Working on the subject of a novel that interests you from start to finish puts you in a strong relationship with the story content and the plot, and for me the novel is an art and an experience that has been conveyed. During which everything wanders in my mind on paper ”.
On the relation of cinema to narrative text, Murad declared: “I do not write in my work for cinema, and if I do that I will lose a lot, and at the same time I do not end my writing according to the vision. and the perspective of the producers, and for that for me there is an audience for the writers and an audience for the cinema, and I do not deny that the cinema “You contribute greatly to the dissemination of the novel, but I write fiction, and if the cinema can translate it, that’s a good thing. ”