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, 8 May 2013

Reading from a Chesterfield with Lister looking on...

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Last week, I read at the Dissecting Edinburgh 'Writing Medicine' event in Surgeons' Hall, alongside Alison Summers and Tracey ...

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Monday, 15 April 2013

Margins, B-cells behaving badly, and a wee dance

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Interesting post - and discussion - on medical humanities and literary medicine from the Centre for Medical Humanities Blog. And a wee re...

Friday, 5 April 2013

Why do we read fiction?

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Can reading literature make doctors better doctors was one of the questions posed at a 'Dissecting Edinburgh' event last month. It ...

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Friday, 22 February 2013

Dissecting Edinburgh; dissecting nonsense

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I have only done readings very occasionally so am very pleased about this (free!) event in a couple of months' time , part of the ...

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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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