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| Born | (1950-05-19)19 May 1950 (age 74) Rajkot,Gujarat, India |
| Occupation | poet, editor |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
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Kamal Vora (born 19 May 1950) is an IndianGujarati-language poet and editor 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]
He lives inGhatkopar,Mumbai.[3]
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) andVruddhashatak (2015). 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] He co-edited withPravin PandyaAadhunik Bharatiya Kavita (Selection of Gujarati poetry from 1950 to 2010), published in 2017.
He received theSahitya Akademi Award (2016) for his bookAnekEk (2012).[7] His bookArav was awarded the Umashankar Joshi award.[4] He is a recipient of theGangadhar National Award For Poetry (2020) and theNarsinh Mehta Award (2024).[8][9]
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