Chandrashekhar Patil | |
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| Born | 18 June 1939 |
| Died | 10 January 2022 (aged 82) Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Education | MA in linguistics |
| Alma mater | Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), University of Leeds |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, public intellectual, professor |
| Notable work | Gandhi Smarane |
| Movement | Bandaya movement |
Chandrashekar Patil (18 June 1939 – 10 January 2022), popularly known as Champa, was an Indian poet, playwright and public intellectual writing in Kannada. 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.