Khalid Jawed is one of the leading Urdu novelists today. He is the author of fifteen works of fiction and non-fiction, and is a recipient of the Katha Award, the Upendranath Ashk Award and the UP Urdu Academy Award. He is a professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University. Khalid Jawed was awarded the JCB Prize for Literature (2022) for the English translation The Paradise of Food of his book Ne’mat Khana.