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Born on April 19, 1946; Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a renowned and prolific Urdu fiction writer, translator, critic and analyst of Pakistan — known for writing stories of unusual social observation. He has versatile art of writing, highly appreciated in the literary circle. In his short-stories and novels, he has established the ideas about social justice, poverty, hunger, thrust, and socio political issues prevailing in the society with natural, original and out spoken characters. His work has been highly acclaimed by the Urdu critics. His family migrated from Gurdaspur East Punjab and settled in a village of Gujranwala district. While studying in Government College Gujranwala, he joined Pakistan Army. After retirement as Major, he settled in Gujranwala Cantt in 1993, and started writing. He has published twelve novels, seven collections of short stories and six books of translations from English — four Turkish novels, one German novel and one collection of Chinese stories. He also publishes a quarterly literary magazine “𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘬” from Gujranwala, Pakistan, which is considered as one of the important Urdu literary journals.

Reinvigoration — Excerpt from Novel 𝒃𝒚 Khalid Fateh Muhammad

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    Born on April 19, 1946; Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a renowned and prolific Urdu fiction writer, translator, critic and analyst of Pakistan — known for writing stories of unusual social observation. He has versatile art of writing, highly appreciated in the literary circle. In his short-stories and novels, he has established the ideas about social justice, poverty, hunger, thrust, and socio political issues prevailing in the society with natural, original and out spoken characters. His work has been highly acclaimed by the Urdu critics.

    His family migrated from Gurdaspur East Punjab and settled in a village of Gujranwala district. While studying in Government College Gujranwala, he joined Pakistan Army. After retirement as Major, he settled in Gujranwala Cantt in 1993, and started writing. He has published twelve novels, seven collections of short stories and six books of translations from English — four Turkish novels, one German novel and one collection of Chinese stories. He also publishes a quarterly literary magazine “𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘬” from Gujranwala, Pakistan, which is considered as one of the important Urdu literary journals.

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Reinvigoration_Excerpt_from_Urdu Novel_Aik Zindgi_ _A_Life_by_Khalid_Fateh_Muhammad_

When you entered the lounge, you were feeling sleepy but you didn’t want to sleep. All the life you had slept on a cot and later a double bed was the piece of furniture where you started sleeping; you had only read that people used sofas to sleep upon.