Kamal Vora
Kamal Vora is an Indian Gujarati-language poet, editor and translator from Mumbai, India. He is an editor of Etad, a quarterly Gujarati literary magazine.
Biography
Kamal Vora was born on 19 May 1950 at Rajkot, Gujarat, India. 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.
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.
He lives in Ghatkopar, Mumbai.
Works
Vora started writing poetry at the age of 18. His poems started appearing in magazines from 1971. His first anthology of poems Arav was published in 1991, followed by AnekEk, Vruddhashatak and Jutthana. 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. He co-edited with Pravin Pandya Aadhunik Bharatiya Kavita, published in 2017. His translations of world poetry are collected in Anuja.
Awards
He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book AnekEk. His book Arav was awarded the Umashankar Joshi award. He is a recipient of the Gangadhar National Award For Poetry and the Narsinh Mehta Award.