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

Showing posts with label blinkered academics. Show all posts

Monday, 6 January 2014

Art & catastrophe, & BBC Alba documentary, repeated on 6 and 13 January

›

The BBC Alba 'Toxic Tiredness' documentary from January 2012 is being repeated tonight at 9pm*. The Gaelic parts are, of course, s...

2 comments:

Friday, 23 August 2013

A couple of good things, a couple of bad things

›

Yesterday, I returned the dreadful Hystories by Elaine Showalter to the library, what a relief to have that book out of my possession, he...

Monday, 18 July 2011

Storytelling (2)

›

Truly disheartening to see 'chronic fatigue syndrome' - unforgivably and ignorantly - referenced as a modern form of hysteria by...

7 comments:

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Books I will never read, and one you should read

›

I will never read Going Rogue, obviously, but I enjoyed this review. I'm always curious about lists of writers' favourite boo...

›

Home

View web version

About Me

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.

View my complete profile