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Nasim Marie Jafry

Nasim Marie Jafry was born in the west of Scotland in 1963 to a Scottish mother and a Pakistani father. She has an MA and a MSc from Glasgow University, but her studies were severely disrupted when she became ill with ME. She currently lives in Edinburgh. Her autobiographical novel The State of Me was published by HarperCollins in 2008. She has had stories published in various literary magazines and was shortlisted for The Bridport Short Story Award 2011.

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