High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nadine Dajani (born in 1978) is a Canadian author. She is the eldest of three children of Bassam Dajani, a mathematics major turned entrepreneur, and Haifa Naffa. She penned short stories throughout elementary and high school but did not pursue any formal journalistic or creative writing training. Fashionably Late, which she started writing at 25, was her first attempt at adult fiction. She has followed that with a second novel Cutting Loose in 2008 and a third is under preparation tentatively titled Cubanista.