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Nasim Marie Jafry

@nmjk.bsky.social

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The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love jazz, tulips, birds, French films | Novella-in-progress | Had ME since 1983 https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 10h

sunrise, 7.30

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Visiting cat

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn arrival alert: the Yellow-browed Warbler has landed! 😍

Once rare, these tiny travellers from Siberia are becoming a more familiar sight as they pass through each autumn.

Weighing just 6 grams, their sharp, distinctive call is usually the first clue they're around.

Have you seen one?

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Cyclamen

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Nice essay in The Author from @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social on fiction within non-fiction. Love the first line. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 26d

geranium petals

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 27d

Rinsing plums and strawberries.

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Kamila Shamsie in conversation with Sonia Faleiro. Am always fascinated by the not knowing when we write. #writing

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Kamila Shamsie @kshams.bsky.social · Feb 21

‘I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.’ @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social writes, brilliantly, in Guernica about chasing a forgotten musical legend from Karachi. I’m proud to have edited it.

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Iggy

I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.

www.guernicamag.com

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 29d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...

She Won the Booker Prize. Then She Disappeared for 20 Years.

www.nytimes.com

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sunflowers

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Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

Writers Unbound

As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Sep 2

You've inspired me to go back. I always write date of purchase inside my books - I've had my copy for 12 years!

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Have been reading this off and on for years!

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 30

Always makes me smile, final scene in Zorba the Greek.

youtu.be/BS0w3Wkric8?...

Zorba the Greek - The Final Dance

YouTube video by Antony Antoniou Property Expert

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ibrahim has a scholarship to study at Glasgow Uni - but he's trapped in Gaza and needs UK Government help to get out.

This week Labour told the media they would bring 40 Gaza students here. Ibrahim heard the news ... then learned he wasn't one of them.

www.thenational.scot/news/2542399...

'I'll lose everything': Gaza student left out of Home Office plans issues urgent plea

A PALESTINIAN student with a full scholarship to study in Scotland has warned that the UK Government must act within two weeks or he will “lose…

www.thenational.scot

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Your article is excellent, Polly. If publishing industry truly wants to be inclusive, has to actually *understand* that many of us live w chronic disabling illness because we have no choice. And we may still write splendid books - albeit slowly, slowly - in spite of our lack of recovery/redemption.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Quote by American poet Christian Winman from beginning of Miriam Toews' new book A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, a memoir on writing and grief.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 26

Delighted that The State of Me
is available in print again in UK.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Lovely to see the very fine @lighthousebks.bsky.social stocking my novel 17 years on!

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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · Aug 14

Mount Sinai Creates First Manual for Treating Infection-Associated Chronic Illness for Clinicians

Brilliant work - huge thanks to all involved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

Mount Sinai Creates First Manual for Treating Infection-Associated Chronic Illness for Clinicians

www.mountsinai.org

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · Aug 24

Quite tickled by something that's a signifier of lower class households across south Asia being included in the FT's HTSI section

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · Aug 19

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hints of autumn

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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · Aug 14

Louis Menand reviews new biography of James Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs in The New Yorker.

The collection on Baldwin I edited last year for @writersmosaic.bsky.social is available here: writersmosaic.org.uk/content/goin...

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

www.newyorker.com

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