Khalid Jawed is an Associate Professor at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. He is renowned equally in India and Pakistan as an Urdu writer of repute. He is a recipient of the Katha Award (1997), the Upendranath Ashk Award by Hindustani Academy, Allahabad (1996) and the UP Urdu Academy Award UP Urdu Academy, Lucknow (2014).