Khalid Jawed

Khalid Jawed (born 9 March 1960) is an Indian novelist. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Jawed is also considered an expert on popular literature. He is equally popular in India and Pakistan.The English translation of Jawed's novel Nemat Khana, The Paradise of Food', won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2022.

Khalid Jawed (born 9 March 1960) is an Indian novelist. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab, critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Jawed is also considered an expert on popular literature. He is equally popular in India and Pakistan.The English translation of Jawed's novel Nemat Khana, The Paradise of Food', won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2022.

Khalid Jawed (born 9 March 1960) is an Indian novelist. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab, critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Jawed is also considered an expert on popular literature. He is equally popular in India and Pakistan.The English translation of Jawed's novel Nemat Khana, The Paradise of Food', won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2022..

Khalid Jawed is an Indian Novelist and one of the leading Urdu Fiction writers. He is the winner of India's richest JCB PRIZE 2022. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab, critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dr. Khalid Jawed is also considered an expert of popular literature and specially an expert of Ibne Safi. He is equally popular in India and Pakistan for his unique style of fiction writing. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad has awarded M.Phil degrees in Urdu on his novel 'Maut ki Kitab' and 'Aakhri dawat', and Central University, Hyderabad has awarded M.Phil in Urdu on his short stories' collection 'Burey Mausam mein'.

One of the leading Urdu novelists today, Khalid Jawed wrote 'Nemat Khana' in 2014. Bringing his work to a wider audience, the book was translated from Urdu to English by Baran Farooqi and published as 'The Paradise of Food' earlier in 2022.Jawed received the prize money of Rs 25 lakh along with a trophy - a sculpture by Delhi artist duo Thukral and Tagra, titled 'Mirror Melting.'Baran Farooqi also received an additional Rs 10 lakh for the award."In 'Nemat Khana', his novel published in Urdu, Khalid Jawed investigates the disease and squalor of domestic existence through the metaphor of the kitchen or the pantry. Food and sustenance make human life go, but they also corrupt human life," reads the book's introduction.

Professor Jawed from the Department of Urdu (JMI) is a contemporary fiction writer. Mr Jawed said it is a very happy moment for him. "Every day we look for small joys in the world around us and I too have had few moments of true happiness in my life and today this award has brought one such moment of joy," he added. Anchored in the space of a kitchen, 'The Paradise of Food' novel is based on the story of a typical middle-class Muslim family revolving around hunger, violence, love, guilt, and confession.Mr Javed's three novels Maut Ki Kitab, Namat Khana and Ek Khanjar Pani Mein' have become very popular and his fourth novel Arsalan Aur Behzad is going to be released very soon. His novel 'Maut Ki Kitab' was translated as the 'Book of Death' by Dr A Naseeb Khan. He has also been honoured with many prestigious awards by literary institutions across the country.

In the main character of the novel, insomnia, horror, madness, sexuality, epilepsy, syphilis and leprosy and madness are all gathered. His mother is belonging to singing community, a lustful father from a landed family, who is forced to live away from home after marriage and believes that his son is the result of his wife's illicit affair with a runaway soldier.The main character is first subjected to public violence when he is seen making sexual gestures to a slightly older girl, from his rooftop. Since childhood, father and son are bound by the chain of hatred, the son wants to kill the father. In these situations, after a quarrel, the mother disappears, the father's attitude towards the son changes, but not much. When diseases and misbehavior increased, marriage was the solution after drugs and gangsters, when nothing changed, they were sent to an insane asylum where they were treated with electric shocks. It is only after this that the prenatal scene is revealed to him, which is when he was eight months old in his mother's womb and was forced to have sexual pleasure by his father.The main character mentions suicide a lot but it is not suicide from beginning to end, he starts talking about killing his father from his childhood and even kills him once but in thought. He sees his mother for the last time at the soldiers' cemetery. But despite this, his attitude does not change from his father.

Khalid Jawed (born 9 March 1960) is an Indian Novelist and one of the leading Urdu Fiction Writers. Some of his works include Aakhri Dawat, Nematkhana and Maut ki Kitab, critically acclaimed for his unique style and narrative. Currently he is serving as Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dr. Khalid Jawed is also considered an expert of popular literature and specially an expert of Ibne Safi. He is equally popular in India and Pakistan for his unique style of fiction writing.Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad has awarded M.Phil degrees in Urdu on his novel 'Maut ki Kitab' and 'Aakhri dawat', and Central University, Hyderabad has awarded M.Phil in Urdu on his short stories' collection 'Burey Mausam mein'.

Khalid Jawed is an Urdu Fiction Writer from India and he is equally popular in India and Pakistan. Some of his writings like 'Teen Kahaniyan' Maut Ki Kitab' and 'Nematkhana' have gained critical acclamation. Literary Critic Shafe Qidwai in his article in The Hindu says "Khalid Jawed does not bury the plot behind the heavy pall of magic realism technique and his style is imbued with a new artistic coherence and he weaves a series of memories and wistful experiences into a viable pattern. It is hoped that the Maut ki Kitab will be noticed in literary circles.

As India – and Islamic culture – hardens, the narrator, whose life we follow from boyhood to old age, struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and in the world outside. But to describe the novel in its plot is to do its originality no justice. In this profoundly daring work – tense, mysterious, even unfathomable on occasion – Jawed builds an atmosphere of gloom and grotesqueness to draw out his themes. And in doing so he penetrates deep into the dark heart of middle-class Muslims today. Superbly translated, The Paradise of Food is a novel like no other.

My father has probably untied me from the electric pole. now I am lying in a narrow and dark cell like a sick and physically depleted animal, My tongue lolling out. There lie a few loaves of Chapattis and a small bowl of pulses or perhaps curry in a corner. But I am not able to bite My morsel.ages have passed since I entered this state. Sometimes, a bright day dawns with the sun scowling for ages, and sometimes everything remains plunged into darkness alone to itself, The heart hangs from a washing line like a wrung out towel, waving and fluttering in the wind.the building sprawling across miles is fenced by the black and sinister-looking high walls overgrown with weeds. during the nights their roar gets distinctly louder, stirring the creepy and eerie feelings. The tall eucalyptus trees standing in rows peer ominously at the desolate area, and throughout the day the monkeys go on jumping onto the walls from trees and then up on the trees. The stray cats climb the dreary walls to let out whimpers.the forlorn building is surrounded by long corridors inhabited by the ghosts and witches resembling human beings. Sometimes, they let out piercing shrieks in unison.and sometimes they roar with laughter rending the air.quite frequently, the eerie and Lonely lanes echo with the sound of some unseen heavy footsteps.the place is also peopled by a few human beings deployed as guards for the security of the ghosts and the witches jarring sound of a burning kerosene stove deepens the weirdness of the silence. In the still of the night, some hyenas are heard Roaring with laughter somewhere in the distance. And perched on a hidden branch is an owl shooting ominously while adding uncanny mysteriousness to the looming silence. The Lonely road reverberates with such a terrifying roar of trucks that other sounds die down.(from the book of death).