Kamal Vora (born 19 May 1950) is an IndianGujarati-language poet, editor and translator fromMumbai, India. He is an editor ofEtad, a quarterly Gujarati literary magazine.[1]
Kamal Vora was born on 19 May 1950 atRajkot,Gujarat, India.[2][3] He worked as an electrical engineer for seven years in a factory inKalyan where his father used to work. Later he entered pharmaceutical industry with his brother.[3]
Since 2010, he co-edits, with Naushil Mehta, a Gujarati quarterly journalEtad, founded bySuresh Joshi. He was a member of the Gujarati advisory board ofSahitya Akademi.[4][5]
Vora started writing poetry at the age of 18.[3] His poems started appearing in magazines from 1971. His first anthology of poemsArav was published in 1991,[6] followed byAnekEk (2012),Vruddhashatak (2015) andJutthana (2023). His poems have been translated in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada and English and appeared inIndian Literature,Chicago Review,Anthology of Asian Poets,Muse India etc.[4][7] He co-edited withPravin PandyaAadhunik Bharatiya Kavita (Selection of Gujarati poetry from 1950 to 2010), published in 2017.[8] His translations of world poetry are collected inAnuja (2023).[9]
^Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2010).અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ (History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era) (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. p. 134.ISBN978-93-5108-247-7.
