Chandrashekhara Kambara

Chandrashekhara Kambara  is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi also president of the Sahitya Akademi, country's premier literary institution, after Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1983) and U.R. Ananthamurthy (1993).

He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays, and poems, in a similar style as in the works of D.R. Bendre. Kambara's plays mainly revolve around folk or mythology interlinked with contemporary issues, inculcating modern lifestyle with his hard-hitting poems.

He has become a pioneer of such literature. Chandrashekhara Kambara was born on 2 January 1937in Ghodageri, a village in Belgaum district of Bombay Presidency (today in Karnataka) .