Chandrashekar Patil (18 June 1939 – 10 January 2022), popularly known as "Champa", was an Indian poet, playwright and public intellectual writing in Kannada. He was considered one of the foremost voices of the progressive literary Bandaya movement. Patil was a recipient of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1989 and the Karnataka state government's Pampa Award in 2009. Patil had served as the president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, a Kannada language literary organization.
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18 June 1939 Hattimattur, Tq: Savanuru, Di: Haveri, Karnataka
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Died |
10 January 2022 (aged 82)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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