Chandrashekhara Basavanneppa Kambara (born 2 January 1937) is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of 展开

Chandrashekhara Kambara was born in kannada-speaking family in Ghodageri, a village in Belgaum district of Bombay Presidency (today in Karnataka). He was the third son in the family, with … 展开

After a brief stint in teaching in the University of Chicago, he taught in Bangalore University for over two decades and was a Fulbright scholar.
He has been elected as the chairman of Sahitya Academy on 12 February 2018.
He served as the … 展开

Kambara has to his credit 25 plays, 11 anthologies of poems, 5 novels, 16 research works and several scholarly write-ups on folk theatre, literature and education. Some of his popular plays include "Jokumaraswamy", "Jayasidnayaka", "Kadu … 展开

In his lengthy narrative poem Helatena Kela ("Listen, I will tell you") in the early 1960s, Kambara introduced some of the recurring themes which he would often return to in his later works. Themes of tradition and modernity, crises of feudalism, native identities, 展开

• Karimaayi (1975) (director)
• Kaadu Kudure (1979) (director)
• Sangeeta (1980) (director)
• G.K. Maastarara Pranaya Prasanga (1986) (television) 展开

Central awards
• Padma Bhushan (2021)
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2011)
• Jnanpith Award (2010) 展开