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, 22 October 2012

Mona Siddiqui on Desert Island Discs

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Very listenable, academic Mona Siddiqui on Desert Island Discs yesterday . I love that her luxury item would be tea. And I had not heard of...

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Tea for two

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My mother recently made fun of my fine range of organic teabags - she's a Scottish Blend/Typhoo woman - and remarked that I must have my...

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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Parody

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I almost felt like I'd myself turned into a lavender plant when I put this round my neck such was the headiness and soothing. And it...

Friday, 31 December 2010

Rosy and not rosy

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I'm sorry if you got a Kindle for Christmas and wanted perhaps to download The State of Me - the e-book is still not showing on Amazon ...

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Saturday, 27 November 2010

Miranda & Voltaire

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I don't watch I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. I can't watch the spiders, that big one that they have between shots (the ...

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Tuesday, 3 October 2006

Too Much to Bear

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BBC 2 tonight: first there was the live coverage of the baby seal, covered in blood and dragging itself along the beach. I don't know w...

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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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