NASIM MARIE JAFRY: ON WRITING, READING and CHRONIC ILLNESS

‘Can there exist, in principle, a proper beginning to any story at all? Isn’t there always, without exception, a latent beginning-before-the-beginning?’ Amos Oz

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Saturday, 10 February 2018

The walling off that illness brings

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At the end of January I spoke at a Scottish Parliament event to raise awareness about the dire lack of services for ME sufferers : there ar...

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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

'Five Years'

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I cried last night watching this BBC Two documentary 'Five Years', which focuses on five key years of David Bowie's work. I lo...

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Writing about writing

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Is there any process or human endeavour that has as much written about it as the act of writing? It seems to be endlessly discussed, a subj...

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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Daisy Miller & ME Awareness Week

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What has Daisy Miller by Henry James got to do with ME Awareness Week ? I recently came across the novella on my bookshelves and a sheet o...

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Sunday, 30 January 2011

From Glasgow to Saturn (19)

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Delighted to have a wee story ( Parched ) - very wee, very short - in issue 19 - of From Glasgow To Saturn , Glasgow University's free...

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nmj: Scotland, United Kingdom; My autobiographical novel The State of Me was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. Based on my experience of the neuroimmune illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), it's my weapon against the ignorance that prevails. I was diagnosed with ME in 1984 by a consultant neurologist after Coxsackie B4 virus. I remain ill today. I've been published in a range of literary magazines and was shortlisted for RLS Award (2005), Bridport Short Story Prize 2011 and Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023. Links to more published writing below. In slow process of writing novella about my late Pakistani doctor father. Am of mixed heritage.

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