Daud Kamal
Template:Short description Template:Use Pakistani English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person 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.<ref name=Dawn/>
His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot.<ref>Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, vol. 32, p. 67</ref>
Education and careerEdit
Born in 1935, in Abbottabad, British Raj, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar,<ref>Daud Kamal, Four contemporary poets : English translation of Urdu poems, 1992, p. 134</ref> and founded the Jinnah College for Women in 1964,<ref>"Genesis of University of Peshawar"</ref> Daud Kamal received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad, followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar.<ref>Muneeza Shamsie, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English, Oxford University Press (1997), p. 82</ref> Then, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Peshawar and the Tripos from the University of Cambridge in England.<ref name="tribune.com.pk"/>
For 29 years, he also had served as a teacher and chairman of University of Peshawar's Department of English.<ref name=Dawn/>
BooksEdit
- Remote Beginnings<ref name=Dawn/>
- Compass of love and other poems<ref name=Dawn/>
- Recognitions<ref name=Dawn/>
- Before the Carnations Wither<ref name=Dawn/>
Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English some selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mirza Ghalib.<ref name=Dawn>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Awards and recognitionEdit
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."<ref>Ikram Azam, Literary Pakistan, Nairang-e-Khayal Publications (1989), p. 86</ref>
He received the Faiz Ahmed Faiz award in 1987 and a posthumous Pride of Performance award in 1990 from the President of Pakistan.<ref name="tribune.com.pk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DeathEdit
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 the Pashto Academy.<ref name=Dawn/><ref name="tribune.com.pk"/>
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
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