The owner of the “Booker” Muhammad Al-Naas, Khaled Al-Nasrallah and Viola Ardonih
The relationship of the author and the reader..with the eyes of 3 novelists
The participants in the session emphasized that the author should not cause the reader to feel disappointed.
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Novelists described the relationship between the author and the reader as “reciprocal influence and influence, with a slight tendency towards greater influence of the reader by the writer, given that the first reads to interact with many writers at the same time, while the author writes to express what he sees and what he wants to read,” noting the need to be careful The writer maintains the promises he made to the reader who decided to acquire his publication, whoever he is, given that there is an unwritten contract between the writer and the reader, and a sharing of emotions with different angles of view and forms of interaction.
This came during the "Author and Reader Dialogue" session, which was organized within the activities of the Sharjah International Book Fair organized by the Sharjah Book Authority at the Sharjah Expo Center, under the slogan "A Word to the World", and its activities will continue until the 13th of this month.
The session hosted the novelists: the Libyan Muhammad Al-Naas, the Kuwaiti Khaled Al-Nasrallah, and the Italian Viola Ardoneh, while it was moderated by Rama Muhanna, the media personality.
Al-Naas, winner of the Arab Booker Prize for his novel “Bread at Uncle Milad’s Table”, said: “The writer does not need to be influenced by the reader by the extent to which the latter is affected by the writing and the literary product issued by the author, or by the way the reader entered into the adventure of reading, is it for exploration? And love to see this experience or entered due to previous experiences?
Every literary experience is in itself a new experience that may be different from its predecessors, and the writer is trying to empty his mind to enjoy it.”
While Khaled Al-Nasrallah stressed that “in the past, the relationship between the reader and the author may have been separate and there were not many stations of convergence, but today the situation has changed. In the end, it is a feedback that may provide benefit to the writer in terms of whether he knows or does not know. The important thing is for the author to write honestly because his mission ends there, and the reader’s role begins in receiving.”
As for Viola Ardoneh, she believed that the real limit that the writer should look at is not to cause the reader to feel literary disappointment, as the relationship between the two parties is a growing interactive relationship, and the creative writer does not leave a trace of weakness or frustration on the reader.
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