Amin Kamil was born at Kaprin, a village in South Kashmir in 1924. He graduated in Arts from the Punjab University and took his degree in law from the Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the Bar in 1947 and continued to practice law till 1949, when he was appointed a lecturer in Sri Pratap College, Srinagar. He was closely associated with the writers’ movement of that era and under its influence switched over from Urdu to Kashmiri as his medium of expression. He joined the State Cultural Academy when it was set up in 1958 and was appointed the convener for Kashmiri. He later became Editor for Kashmiri and edited the two journals of the Academy – Sheeraza and Son Adab with distinction for many years.
Kamil is a master of the Kashmiri ghazal and has been instrumental in fashioning it into an entity distinct from its Urdu and Persian counterparts. His poetry is marked by freshness of sensibility, maturity of expression and striking technical innovation which together give him a diction uniquely his own.
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Amin Kamil was a Kashmiri poet.
Born: 3 August 1924, Kaprin
Died: 30 October 2014, Jammu
Books: Labah Te Prabah
Awards: Padma Shri
Literary movement: Modernism
Amin Kamil was born at Kaprin, a village in South Kashmir in 1924. He graduated in Arts from the Punjab University and took his degree in law from the Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the Bar in 1947 and continued to practice law till 1949, when he was appointed a lecturer in Sri Pratap College, Srinagar. He was closely associated with the writers’ movement of that era and under its influence switched over from Urdu to Kashmiri as his medium of expression. He joined the State Cultural Academy when it was set up in 1958 and was appointed the convener for Kashmiri. He later became Editor for Kashmiri and edited the two journals of the Academy – Sheeraza and Son Adab with distinction for many years.
Kamil is a master of the Kashmiri ghazal and has been instrumental in fashioning it into an entity distinct from its Urdu and Persian counterparts. His poetry is marked by freshness of sensibility, maturity of expression and striking technical innovation which together give him a diction uniquely his own.
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