Arun Kamal

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Arun Kamal

Born	15 February 1954 (age 70)
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]}

References

^ "Arun Kamal's Biography". Kalam. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
^ "Arun Kamal's Biography". hindisamay. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
^ 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.

External links

Arun Kumar Archived 23 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine at Kavita Kosh

v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi
1955–1959	Makhanlal Chaturvedi (1955) Vasudeva Saran Agrawal (1956) Acharya Narendra Dev (1957) Rahul Sankrityayan (1958) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1959)
1960–1979	Sumitranandan Pant (1960) Bhagwati Charan Verma (1961) Not awarded (1962) Amrit Rai (1963) S. H. V. Agyeya (1964) Nagendra (1965) Jainendra Kumar (1966) Amritlal Nagar (1967) Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1968) Shrilal Shukla (1969) Ram Vilas Sharma (1970) Namvar Singh (1971) Bhawani Prasad Mishra (1972) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1973) Shivmangal Singh Suman (1974) Bhisham Sahni (1975) Yashpal (1976) Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1977) Bharat Bhushan Agarwal (1978) Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil' (1979)
1980–1999	Krishna Sobti (1980) Trilochan (1981) Harishankar Parsai (1982) Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (1983) Raghuvir Sahay (1984) Nirmal Verma (1985) Kedarnath Agarwal (1986) Shrikant Verma (1987) Naresh Mehta (1988) Kedarnath Singh (1989) Shiv Prasad Singh (1990) Girija Kumar Mathur (1991) Giriraj Kishore (1992) Vishnu Prabhakar (1993) Ashok Vajpeyi (1994) Kunwar Narayan (1995) Surendra Verma (1996) Leeladhar Jagudi (1997) Arun Kamal (1998) Vinod Kumar Shukla (1999)
2000–2019present	Manglesh Dabral (2000) Alka Saraogi (2001) Rajesh Joshi (2002) Kamleshwar (2003) Viren Dangwal (2004) Manohar Shyam Joshi (2005) Gyanendrapati (2006) Amarkant (2007) Govind Mishra (2008) Kailash Vajpeyi (2009) Uday Prakash (2010) Kashinath Singh (2011) Chandrakant Devtale (2012) Mridula Garg (2013) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2014) Ramdarash Mishra (2015) Nasira Sharma (2016) Ramesh Kuntal Megh (2017) Chitra Mudgal (2018) Nand Kishore Acharya (2019)
2020–present	Anamika (2020) Daya Prakash Sinha (2021) Badri Narayan (2022)

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