By: Azad Karimi
By the way, writers should warn their readers about this world, and that the heroes of their novels and stories themselves should seek the reader's help behind the pages.
Interview
Swedish-Kurdish(Iraqi) Author Majid Nouri Qader
By Azad Karimi
Please read the sentence that coming in follow:
"The good writer brings together the edges of the topics, and then draws them anew with his feelings, attractiveness and breath" .
Majid nouri describes his views on the mission of a good professional writer with these sentences.
I would like to explain about a subject for Majed Noori’s nationality.
I have written: he is Swedish-Kurdish (Iraqi).
It is because of he lives in Sweden. He is Kurdish from Kurdistan of Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan.
For example I’m Norwegian-Kurdish (Iran).It means I am Norwegian but I born in Kurdistan area in west of Iran.
Kurdistan is a wide land and has parted between Turkey, Iran,Iraq and Syria.
So I explained about this, because I felt should be clear.
I wrote this explanation so that my friends would know why I wrote the names of the three identity items and not have to explain them again in other possible articles.
Thank you
Vestland-Norway
1- Please present yourself (Name, education, Civil status and...)
.My name is Majid Noore Qader, I am 51 years old. I was born in Sulaimanya-Kurdistan in 1968. I completed my studies at the Teachers institute in 1987. I am married and have two sons and one daughter.
2-what is your artistic specialize?
.Throughout my literary and artistic career, I have authored numerous books in many fields, including stories, poetry, criticism, studies in plastic and theatrical art, and photography, and have been the editor of literary, artistic, and political journals. for example (Art New) magazine, (Taw) magazine and (Gulan)magazine. And I prepared and presented radio and television programs, the most famous of which was the (Crystal) program, also when I was in the spring of life, I acted in many artistic plays, and I translated books, but the field that this orchard tells of my continuous activities is the field of writing stories
3- When and how did you become interested in this field?
.When I was in elementary school; one of the authors of Kurdish stories was the teacher of the Kurdish language in our class. He told us his stories on several occasions. It was at that time that I started telling stories about the villages I was visiting with my father, my father was a mechanic of agricultural machines, and I wrote several stories in one of my school notebooks. One day, my teacher told me at school: Where did you get these stories and who wrote it, no one believed me that I was a story writer, and then I published my first story in the newspaper when I was 14 years old.
4- Who was your motivator?
.One of my neighbors' girls, she was ten years older than me, and she was studying at the university, and she encouraged me to write her some a love letters, she accepted my cheek for every letter, she brought me literary books to read, she was the one who sent some of my stories to the newspapers, and she brought me into one of the political groups when I was 14 years old, I loved her madly, and two years later I published my love story with that girl in (Karawan) magazine
5- What was your parent’s reaction?
.My dad would encourage me to become a mechanical engineer, teach me how to repair cars, and tell me that writing stories and creating stories would make me crazy and I would descend into poverty
And my mother was always criticizing me, accusing me of neglecting my school lessons, and telling me that I write fictional things that do not exist in reality.
6- When started you such as a professional writer?
.When the mass uprising began in Kurdistan in 1991 against the tyrannical Saddam regime; I published my first collection of stories entitled (Who Heals Your Wounds, O Homeland). And after that, I became a member of the Kurdistan Writers Union.
7- Are you thankful and happy because of your activities as an writer?
.I have an addiction in reading and writing, but I am not happy, because of my writings, books, and texts that I was publishing, I left my first girlfriend, and because of the critical tendency in my writings, they expelled my family from Sulaymaniyah city and confiscated my father's house by the ruling party in Sulaymaniyah days Civil war But literature and writing literary stories taught me how to be tolerant of those who tortured me in prison and who hurt my family and robbed their home,
In the future, we have a very liberating world.
8- How you see the view: Literature future?
.Science has reached a frightening stage of progress. Scientists have their own cities, and people use science to meet all their human needs and desires. There is no need for marriage because they reproduce by placing the embryos in special containers instead of the wombs of mothers, and the people's greatest concern is pleasure in all its forms, especially sexual pleasure. Mechanisms in every place serve the person who finds everything he wants in front of him with the push of a button so that the feeling of sadness in this world can be bypassed by the use of drugs
By the way, writers should warn their readers about this world, and that the heroes of their novels and stories themselves should seek the reader's help behind the pages. Until the reader begins to realize that this seemingly perfect world is designed for entertainment, amusement, and nothing else, free of all life crises that humans lead from illness through thousands of separations and not the end of responsibilities. This world is not perfect at all, but it seems frightening, controlling it because it lacks the most important human requirement, which is the spiritual demand from which all human qualities emanate, and in this world, there are people like the Kurdish people. Their number exceeds 70 million and is still stateless due to the brutality of the prevailing global political laws.
9- Can you become one part of the cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generation in your country and so than?
.For me, each generation of peoples represents a vital moment and a pulse of its historical potential. Each note has its own unique characteristics: it is a fixed rhythm in the pulse chain, as with every note in the flow of a melody. This is because the generations arise from one another in such a way that the new generation finds itself with the forms with which the previous generation was launched into existence. Life, then, is a two-dimensional task for a generation: the first is to receive the ideas, values, and institutions that the previous generation lived, and the other dimension is to make their choices flow. But writers in my generation were writing revolutionary literature against the tyrant Saddam, and we sacrificed many concepts of creativity, so I must write about my experience in a way that the new generation teaches my style and I advise them to move away from the tradition of our generation...
10-How can you help our world become a better place for living?
.We have no other choice. This is a multicultural world of differences: therefore it is imperative that we learn to live with these differences. This is an art that requires the ability of dialogue to translate between cultures. Second, bridging the gap between livings conditions (social conditions, dimensions of growth, new challenges, problems that need solutions) and those who govern them still exist, people are always close to doubt ... and I am afraid of constant doubt. Today, images of fear have spread and become known. It's hard to go back to its roots.
Which makes contemporary images of fear hard to soften? These are images everywhere: unstable jobs, insufficient knowledge, ever-changing rules of the game, weak ties between people, a progressive weakening of social security, threats of toxic odors or carcinogenic foods, denial of the market economy, and even citizen’s security on the street and at home. This suspicion prevails over each of these images and deepens to form intellectual feelings. From here comes the role of every writer and artist, and this role is embodied through our writings, paintings, and ways to change reality for the better, through the lenses of our minds to enlarge the infinite imagination, through our pens and the keyboard, For aesthetic coloring and movement. Far from closed religions and ideologies, our speeches are an introduction to philosophical questions, to make others think and fly in the sky of enlightened thought.
- What do you think are the characteristics of a good writer?
.For a writer to be good and successful he must be from my point of view and maybe you agree with me.
Author enjoys the spirit of writing, the son of reality, in which he lived and spoke about him and flew on his papers a seducer. The writers formulate phrases while making precious jewelry.
A successful writer is:
- One whose language and papers is a scientific encyclopedia. He does not bother to talk about any aspect, but he is like a torrent whenever he finds a void filled. He reads a lot, saves a lot, thinks a lot and thinks about phrases in a charming way. He does not need to read or hear the qualities of a successful writer, but he experiences them himself.
- If he writes that his tones in the soul, water flow in the music. And love is in the soul.
- If he writes about the poor, turns the bitterness of nothingness into happiness.
- Who writes about the rich, he seeks generosity and generosity, and makes life a giver? Constipation is death. Spending is happiness.
- Possesses a vocabulary of poetry, prose, and elaborates systems
- Who tells the phrases is a wonderful novel as if the reader lived it and the listener attended it
- Weeps, suffer from his heart, regrets his mind and his voice swings in his words, bereaved words, and beautiful words flowing on his pen, groans falling into tears, and exhaling lessons.
- Gathers the edges of the topic and draws them with his feelings, charisma, and breath, then tames his pen to write and then wonders.
- Who points to the grandeur of the phrase and the sanctity of the word, and turns defeat into victory, the shock of tragedy to glorification.
-And he/she should extend my knowledge away from cost and fabrication at the time (too big to be described by my words or to be shown by a pen reference.
12- Have you more word to say or suggestion for our readers?
. I wish the pens were colored, along with the noble feelings of each creator.
