Chandra Prakash Deval teaches in the Department of Biochemistry at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer. Among his published works are several volumes of poetry. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1979), the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award (1993), the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (1980) and Meera Puraskar, the highest Hindi award conferred by the Sahitya Akademi.