Kamal Vora

Kamal Vora
Born	(1950-05-19) 19 May 1950 (age 75) Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Occupation	poet, editor, translator
Language	Gujarati
Nationality	Indian
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (2016) Gangadhar National Award For Poetry (2020) Narsinh Mehta Award (2024)

Kamal Vora (born 19 May 1950) is an Indian Gujarati-language poet, editor and translator from Mumbai, India. He is an editor of Etad, a quarterly Gujarati literary magazine. ^[1]

Biography

Kamal Vora was born on 19 May 1950 at Rajkot, Gujarat, India. ^{[2] [3]} He worked as an electrical engineer for seven years in a factory in Kalyan where his father used to work. Later he entered pharmaceutical industry with his brother. ^[3]

Since 2010, he co-edits, with Naushil Mehta, a Gujarati quarterly journal Etad, founded by Suresh Joshi. He was a member of the Gujarati advisory board of Sahitya Akademi. ^{[4] [5]}

He lives in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. ^[3]

Works

Vora started writing poetry at the age of 18. ^[3] His poems started appearing in magazines from 1971. His first anthology of poems Arav was published in 1991, ^[6] followed by AnekEk (2012), Vruddhashatak (2015) and Jutthana (2023). His poems have been translated in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada and English and appeared in Indian Literature , Chicago Review , Anthology of Asian Poets, Muse India etc. ^{[4] [7]} He co-edited with Pravin Pandya Aadhunik Bharatiya Kavita (Selection of Gujarati poetry from 1950 to 2010), published in 2017. ^[8] His translations of world poetry are collected in Anuja (2023). ^[9]

Awards

He received the Sahitya Akademi Award (2016) for his book AnekEk (2012). ^[10] His book Arav was awarded the Umashankar Joshi award. ^[4] He is a recipient of the Gangadhar National Award For Poetry (2020) and the Narsinh Mehta Award (2024). ^{[11] [12]}

See also

• List of Gujarati-language writers

References

1. "Balvant Parekh Centre Nodal Centres, Sapta Setu: A Report". balvantparekhcentre. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
2. Dutt, K.C. (1999). Who's Who of Indian Writers: 1999 : Vol. 2 N-Z. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 1470. ISBN   978-81-260-0873-5. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
3. Shah, Ruchita (8 July 2020). "જ્યારે કવિ ઉમાશંકર જોષી આંખ મીંચીને સાંભળી રહ્યા હતા કવિ કમલ વોરાના કાવ્યને" [When famous poet Umashankar Joshi was listening to poet Kamal Vora]. Gujarati Midday (in Gujarati). Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
4. "Welcome to Muse India". Welcome to Muse India. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
5. Tripathi, Salil (16 February 2018). "A new generation of poets from Gujarat is keeping a rich poetic legacy alive". LiveMint . Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
6. Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2010). અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ (History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era) (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. p. 134. ISBN   978-93-5108-247-7.
7. Topiwala, Chandrakant (August 2023). Patel, Rajendra; Brahmabhatt, Subhash (eds.). "Jutthana: Review". Buddhiprakash . Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidya Sabha. pp. 20–22. ISSN   2347-2448.
8. "Kamal Vora". Poetry International. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
9. Tevar, Urvi (July–September 2024). Yashaschandra, Sitanshu (ed.). "Anuja: Review". Farbus Gujarati Sabha Quarterly. Mumbai: Farbus Gujarati Sabha. pp. 76–77.
10. "Sahitya Akademi winners announced, Jerry Pinto among 24 writers named". dna. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
11. "Gujarati poet Kamal Vora gets Gangadhar Award". The New Indian Express. 28 January 2022. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
12. "સન્માન: આ વર્ષનો નરસિંહ મહેતા એવોર્ડ કવિ કમલ વોરાને એનાયત થશે". Divya Bhaskar (in Gujarati). 18 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.