Khalid Hussain (born 1945) is a Punjabi writer.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2021 for his short-story collection Sullan Da Salan.
[2] Khalid was born in 1945 in a kashmiri speaking family Udhampur district of the Jammu and Kashmir princely state.
During the 1947 partition of India, he fled the violence with his mother but seven male members of his family, including his brothers, father and grandfather, were killed.
[3] The family settled in Ustad Mohalla, old Jammu city, which was predominantly Punjabi speaking.