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.
[2] Born in 1935, in Abbottabad, British Raj, the son of Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, who served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Peshawar,[3] and founded the Jinnah College for Women in 1964,[4] Daud Kamal received his early education from the Burn Hall Abbottabad, followed by Burn Hall Srinagar, before going to the Islamia College Peshawar.
[6] For 29 years, he also had served as a teacher and chairman of University of Peshawar's Department of English.
[1] 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.