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Chandrashekhara Kambara

1937 - Today

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chandrashekhara Kambara is the 3,981st most popular writer (down from 2,707th in 2019). (down from 2,086th in 2019)

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Among writers, Chandrashekhara Kambara ranks 3,981 out of 7,302Before him are Maurice Scève, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Tarabai Shinde, Milovan Glišić, and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad. After him are Elia Abu Madi, Edna O'Brien, Dulce María Loynaz, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Janko Matúška, and Hjalmar Bergman.

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Among people born in 1937, Chandrashekhara Kambara ranks 295Before him are Zdeněk Zikán, Eero Mäntyranta, Boris Cyrulnik, Joaquim Carvalho, Willi Koslowski, and Guy Marchand. After him are Ferenc Kósa, Anita Traversi, Richard Marquand, Johnny Dorelli, Carlo Mazzone, and Mirko Marjanović.

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