Stephen King plans to write a novel about “Covid-19”

For a long time before the spread of the Corona virus, the topic of the epidemic was a literary tradition spread in literary history, and a number of novelists and poets dealt with human stories ranging from intimacy and separation, and the feelings of those who lost their lover to the epidemic, as well as those trapped in quarantine, afraid of infection or fleeing death.
The most famous horror writer in the United States of America, Stephen King, is planning to write a novel about “Covid-19”.

“I plan to write a novel specifically about the coronavirus,” King said. “I want to take the sequence of the year 2020, which saw the peak of the pandemic.”

King noted that the pandemic has already affected the content of his new novel, “Billy Summers,” which was published this week.

On the subject of the epidemic, the English journalist and poet Rudyard Kipling previously wrote his poem “Cholera Camp” a year later, and the narration and the novel in particular remains broader and more detailed, and this is what many novels witnessed.

Among the Arabs who wrote novels that embodied the disease and told about personal experiences with the disease, “Eradication” by the Moroccan novelist Taher Ben Jelloun, “My Right Leg” by the Egyptian poet Wael Wagdy, and “Diary of a Radiant Woman” by the Egyptian storyteller Neamat El-Behairy.