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Biography
Nadine Aisha Jassat is an award-winning writer, and author of poetry collection Let Me Tell You This (shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and a Herald Scottish Culture Award for Outstanding Literature) and middle grade verse novels The Hidden Story of Estie Noor, and The Stories Grandma Forgot (And How I Found Them), described by Sophie Anderson as ‘one of those books that truly makes the world a better place’.
She has been published widely, including in It’s Not About The Burqa (shortlisted for the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year), and Bloodaxe's Staying Human. She has taught and performed internationally and across the UK, and has appeared across media - from BBC Scotland's The Big Scottish Book Club, to South Africa's Cape Talk Radio.
Nadine lives in Scotland, and grew up in the North of England with a Yorkshire mum and a Zimbabwean dad. She is of mixed heritage; a heritage which can only be told in stories.
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Photo credit: Danielle Watt.
Verse novels cover and illustrations by Sandhya Prabhat, Let Me Tell You This cover by Shazleen Khan.
