A HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR

Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a retired cavalry officer, novelist, short story writer, translator, critic, and editor of a quarterly Urdu magazine. He has authored twelve Urdu and two Punjabi novels, nine collections of stories, and eight collections of translations of international fiction into Urdu.

His fiction revolves around the common man, highlighting his miseries from the perspective of the modern world. His emphasis is on his psychological wounds, rather than the financial hardships he undergoes. He believes in hope, and to drive his point home, he uses the tool of fantasy, coupled, at times, with hallucinatory realism, and the stark, gnashing reality staring at him.
His is a different voice, with a bitter message spelled out in the sweetest of words. He uses symbols and metaphors to make his stories more effective and appealing, but he writes what he feels, not what others expect him to write.