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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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Eye talk

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Well, my (anterior) chambers may be deep and quiet, but the pressures are still fucked and I forgot to defrost the mince. I hate using the m...

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Saturday, 28 June 2008

Relatively speaking

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My very artistic close friend, herself prone to anxiety, recently told me that after seeing me she often feels calm. That's nice, I sai...

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Friday, 30 May 2008

Desks & Suicide

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Via Fiction Bitch , I have come across this Hanif Kureishi interview . On the fascination with photographing writers' desks he has th...

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Friday, 6 October 2006

Eyes

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The only way I can make my contact lenses comfy is by tilting my face to the skies and letting the rain fall. Or by crying a lot.

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Wednesday, 28 June 2006

Turquoise

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Last night, I found myself locking my front door - I was taking out the rubbish - only to realise I had no shoes on. Even by my standards th...

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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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