| Daud Kamal | |
| Birth Date: | January 4, 1935 |
| Death Place: | Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Birth Place: | Abbottabad, British Raj |
| Spouse: | Parveen Daud Kamal |
| Occupation: | Poet, Professor of English language |
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. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot.[1]
Born in 1935, in Abbottabad, British Raj, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar,[2] and founded the Jinnah College for Women in 1964,[3] Daud Kamal received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad, followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar.[4] Then, 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 also had served as a teacher and chairman of University of Peshawar's Department of English.
Professor Daud Kamal also translated from Urdu into English some selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mirza Ghalib.[5]
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."[6]
He received the Faiz Ahmed Faiz award in 1987 and a posthumous Pride of Performance award in 1990 from the President of Pakistan.[7]
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.[5] [7]