Summary
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.[1]
Daud Kamal | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 4, 1935 |
| Died | May 12, 1987 (aged 52) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Professor of English language |
| Spouse | Parveen Daud Kamal |
His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot.[2]
Education and career edit
Born in Abbottabad in 1935, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar,[3] and was the founder of the Jinnah College for Women in 1964,[4] he received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad there followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar.[5] Then, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Peshawar and the Tripos from the University of Cambridge in England.[6]
For 29 years, he also had served as a teacher and chairman of University of Peshawar's Department of English.[1]
Books edit
- Remote Beginnings[1]
- Compass of love and other poems[1]
- Recognitions[1]
- Before the Carnations Wither[1]
Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English some selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mirza Ghalib.[1]
Awards and recognition edit
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."[7]
He received the Faiz Ahmed Faiz award in 1987 and a posthumous Pride of Performance award in 1990 from the President of Pakistan.[6]
Death edit
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.[1][6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h Shinwari, Sher Alam (6 December 2014). "English poet late Professor Daud Kamal paid tribute for his literary work". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, vol. 32, p. 67
- ^ Daud Kamal, Four contemporary poets : English translation of Urdu poems, 1992, p. 134
- ^ "Genesis of University of Peshawar"
- ^ Muneeza Shamsie, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English, Oxford University Press (1997), p. 82
- ^ a b c "Celebrating the unsung: After the carnations wither". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 5 December 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ Ikram Azam, Literary Pakistan, Nairang-e-Khayal Publications (1989), p. 86