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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Monday, 19 May 2014

Good things: film, dance, books

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Last week, I got the DVD of the documentary film Voices in the Shadows , which came out in 2011 - of course, I've known about the f...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Doctors who know what they're talking about

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From the recent Bristol Watershed's abridged showing of Voices from the Shadows and discussion afterwards: Dr Mark VanNess is e...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Different kinds of light

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The exhibition of Chinese lantern warriors at Edinburgh University is beautiful and haunting, the figures sway gently in the wind, the old ...

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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Part Two of Trusadh: 'The Toxic Tiredness' on BBC Alba

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Part Two of 'The Toxic Tiredness' documentary airs tomorrow night - Monday 13th - on BBC Alba at 9pm (and repeated tomorrow at 10...

Sunday, 20 October 2013

On the same page

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I saw Dr Nigel Speight, retired consultant paediatrician, speak yesterday afternoon, it was a joy to listen to a doctor express such openm...

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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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