Daud Kamal
Daud Kamal (4 January 1935 – 5 December 1987) (Urdu: داؤد کمال) was a Pakistani poet who wrote most of his work in the English language. His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W. Yeats and T.
Daud Kamal
- Name
- Daud Kamal
- Born
- 4 January 1935
- Died
- 12 May 1987
- Place of death
- Peshawar, Pakistan
- Birthplace
- Abbottabad, British Raj
- Spouse
- Parveen Daud Kamal
- Occupation
- Poet, Professor of English language
- Nationality
- Pakistan · British Raj
- Education
- University of Cambridge · Islamia College University · University of Peshawar
- Honours
- Pride of Performance
- Languages
- English · Urdu
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Daud Kamal (4 January 1935 – 5 December 1987) (Urdu: داؤد کمال) was a Pakistani poet who wrote most of his work in the English language. His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W. Yeats and T.
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Daud Kamal (1935–1987) was a poet and professor, a national of the British Raj and Pakistan.
The poet was educated at Islamia College University, University of Cambridge and University of Peshawar. Daud Kamal worked for University of Peshawar.
Languages used include English and Urdu. Honours include Pride of Performance.
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• Name — Daud Kamal • Born — 4 January 1935 • Died — 12 May 1987 • Place of death — Peshawar, Pakistan • Birthplace — Abbottabad, British Raj • Spouse — Parveen Daud Kamal • Occupation — Poet, Professor of English language
Education and career
Education and career
Born in 1935, in Abbottabad, British Raj, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar, and founded the Jinnah College for Women in 1964, Daud Kamal received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad, followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Peshawar and the Tripos from the University of Cambridge in England. For 29 years, he had also served as a teacher and chairman of University of Peshawar's Department of English.
Death
Death
Professor Daud Kamal died in the United States on 5 December 1987. Later he was buried in the cemetery of University of Peshawar, where he taught for 29 years, opposite the Pashto Academy.
Books
• Remote Beginnings • Compass of love and other poems • Recognitions • Before the Carnations Wither Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mirza Ghalib.
Awards and recognition
It has been said that during the 1970s he won "three gold medals in three international poetry competitions sponsored by the Triton College, U.S.A." He received the Faiz Ahmed Faiz award in 1987 and a posthumous Pride of Performance award in 1990 from the President of Pakistan.
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- 1.Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, vol. 32, p. 67
- 2.Daud Kamal, Four contemporary poets : English translation of Urdu poems, 1992, p. 134
- 3."Genesis of University of Peshawar"
- 4.Muneeza Shamsie, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English, Oxford University Press (1997), p. 82
- 5.Shinwari, Sher Alam. English poet late Professor Daud Kamal paid tribute for his literary work. Dawn (newspaper). 6 December 2014.
- 6.Ikram Azam, Literary Pakistan, Nairang-e-Khayal Publications (1989), p. 86
- 7.The Express Tribune (newspaper). Celebrating the unsung: After the carnations wither. 5 December 2013.
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