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Arun Kamal | |
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Born | 15 February 1954 ![]() |
Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award ![]() |
Arun Kamal is an Indian poet in modern Hindi literature with a progressive, ideological poetic style. Apart from poetry, Kamal has also written criticism and has done translations in Hindi. [1] [2] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi in 1998.[ citation needed ]
Arun Kamal's real name is Arun Kumar.[ citation needed ] For literary writing, he adopted the name Arun Kamal.[ citation needed ] He was born on 15 February 1954 at Nasriganj in Bihar. He has been a professor in the English Department of Patna University. [3] He lives in Patna.[ citation needed ]