Daud Kamal (4 January 1935 - 5 December 1987) (

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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. His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.

Education and career

Born in Abbottabad in 1935, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar, and was the founder of the Jinnah College for Women in 1964, he received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad there followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar. Then, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Peshawar and the Tripos from the

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in England. For 29 years, he also had served as a teacher and chairman of

University of Peshawar The University of Peshawar ( ps, د پېښور پوهنتون; hnd, پشور یونیورسٹی; ur, ; abbreviated UoP; known more popularly as Peshawar University) is a public research university located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pa ...

's Department of English.

Books

* ''Remote Beginnings'' * ''Compass of love and other poems'' * ''Recognitions'' * ''Before the Carnations Wither'' Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English some selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and

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Awards and recognition

It has been said that during the 1970s he won "three gold medals in three international poetry competitions sponsored by the

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, U.S.A."Ikram Azam, ''Literary Pakistan'', Nairang-e-Khayal Publications (1989), p. 86 He received the ''Faiz Ahmed Faiz award'' in 1987 and a posthumous ''

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'' award in 1990 from the President of Pakistan.

Death

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,

's graveyard in front of the Pashto Academy.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kamal, Daud 1935 births 1987 deaths Pakistani poets Pakistani translators English-language poets from Pakistan Recipients of the Pride of Performance University of Peshawar alumni University of Peshawar faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge 20th-century translators Army Burn Hall College alumni People from Abbottabad