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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 · 2d

Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 20d

This book! I read Simone de Beauvoir’s THE IMAGE OF HER in one sitting. Absolutely phenomenal. Translated beautifully by @lauren_elkin_
Imagine some of the psychological and linguistic slippages of Virginia Woolf with the acuity of de Beauvoir as she describes the inner workings of a bourgeois (1)

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 15d

Good piece here about Zoë Wicomb, who died earlier this week, by Derek Attridge. She was brilliant in so many ways. 💔💔

Zoë Wicomb, the South African-Scottish writer who told powerful stories about belonging

A guide to the work of an acclaimed writer who represented the marginalised in society.

theconversation.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 8d

So, John and I worked on this book forever and ever. Calling it a labor of love is a bit cliché. A labor of obsession? Of adoration? The Penguin Book of the International Short Story comes out on April 7, 2026 (from @penguinpress.bsky.social, of course). Just check out the stories in the book . . .

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 7d

Tulips in October

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Made me guffaw too.

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 9d

This made me guffaw

Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10d

are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 9d

Moth on other side of window, I love how they stay there for hours, so still. Feather in rain.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 16d

Sunset

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 17d

Autumn pink

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 18d

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 21d

'Every story has an expiration date. Like a jar of marmalade or a candle.' THE BOOK OF GOOSE, Yiyun Li.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 22d

Love novels that make me laugh out loud. Reading LESS by Andrew Sean Greer.

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

Autumn colour and a (very old) wooden cat.

Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · 24d

sunrise, 7.30

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

Visiting cat

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Sep 30

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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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Sep 21

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 · Sep 12

geranium petals

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Nasim Marie Jafry @nmjk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Rinsing plums and strawberries.

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

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.

www.guernicamag.com/iggy/

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 · Sep 9

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

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

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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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