Arun Kamal

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Arun Kamal
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Born15 February 1954  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (age 71)
Notable awards Sahitya Akademi Award   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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 ]

References

  1. "Arun Kamal's Biography". Kalam. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  2. "Arun Kamal's Biography". hindisamay. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  3. Dutt, Kartik Chandra (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 63. ISBN   978-81-260-0873-5.