movement death_date death_place children birth_place citizenship awards notableworks name birth_date period article_title education birth_name occupation alma_mater
modernism 30 october 2014 jammu , jammu and kashmir , india six kaprin , jammu and kashmir , british india kashmiri by birth ; indian from 1947 sahitya akademi award -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , padma shri gati kath -lrb- 1966 -rrb- , lava ta prava -lrb- 1965 manz -rrb- , beyi suy paan -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , padis gaash pod tshay -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , yim myani sokhan -lrb- -lrb- 2001 -rrb- 1958 -rrb- , kathi manz amin kamil 3 august 1924 1940 -- 1942 amin kamil
 ba , llb muhammad amin poet editor , fiction writer , literary critic , and punjab university , lahore aligarh muslim university
amin kamil

amin kamil -lrb- 1924 - 2014 -rrb- was a major voice in kashmiri poetry and one of the chief exponents of modern ghazal in the language .
kamil has also given us some memorable poems in the nazm form .
he edited the independent journal `` neab '' for some time .
as a critic he has acquired wide recognition .
he also helped create the modified alphabet presently used for kashmiri language .
kamil has also contributed to the field of translation .
his translation of tagore 's `` dak ghar '' , as also the poetry of the urdu poet lqbal have been significant additions to the corpus of translated literature available in kashmiri .
kamil was born at kaprin , a village in south kashmir .
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 until 1949 , when he was appointed a lecturer in sri pratap college , srinagar .
he was closely associated with progressive writers ' movement of that time 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 the kashmiri language .
he later became editor for kashmiri and edited the two journals of the academy -- sheeraza and son adab with distinction for many years .
he retired from the service of the academy in 1979 .
