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]

His poetry was influenced by modernist English-language poets like Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. ^[2]

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, ^[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

• 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

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

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]}

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