Kamal Vora

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.

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.

He lives in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. 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. He co-edited with Pravin Pandya Aadhunik Bharatiya Kavita (Selection of Gujarati poetry from 1950 to 2010), published in 2017. His translations of world poetry are collected in Anuja (2023).

Awards He received the Sahitya Akademi Award (2016) for his book AnekEk (2012). His book Arav was awarded the Umashankar Joshi award.