Daud Kamal | |
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| Born | (1935-01-04)January 4, 1935 |
| Died | May 12, 1987(1987-05-12) (aged 52) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet,Professor of English language |
| Spouse | Parveen Daud Kamal |
Daud Kamal (4 January 1935 – 5 December 1987) (Urdu: داؤد کمال) was a Pakistani poet who wrote most of his work in theEnglish language.[1]
His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets likeEzra Pound,W. B. Yeats andT. S. Eliot.[2]
Born in 1935, inAbbottabad,British Raj, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar,[3] and founded theJinnah College for Women in 1964,[4] Daud Kamal received his early education from theBurn Hall Abbottabad, followed byBurn Hall Srinagar, before going to theIslamia College Peshawar.[5] Then, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Peshawar and the Tripos from theUniversity of Cambridge in England.[6]
For 29 years, he also had served as a teacher and chairman ofUniversity of Peshawar's Department of English.[1]
Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English some selected poems ofFaiz Ahmed Faiz andMirza Ghalib.[1]
It has been said that during the 1970s he won "three gold medals in three international poetry competitions sponsored by theTriton College, U.S.A."[7]
He received theFaiz Ahmed Faiz award in 1987 and a posthumousPride of Performance award in 1990 from thePresident of Pakistan.[6]
Professor Daud Kamal died in the United States on 5 December 1987. Later he was buried in the cemetery of the same university where he taught for 29 years,University of Peshawar's graveyard in front of thePashto Academy.[1][6]
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