1. Chandrashekhara Kambara has been conferred with many prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan in 2021, Jnanpith Award in 2011 for the year 2010, Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Shri by Government of India, Kabir Samman, Kalidas Samman and Pampa Award.
Chandrashekhara Kambara was born in kannada-speaking family in Ghodageri, a village in Belgaum district of Bombay Presidency.
Chandrashekhara Kambara was the third son in the family, with brothers Parasappa and Yallappa who still reside in the small house belonging to the Kambara family in the village.
From an early age, Chandrashekhara Kambara was interested in folk arts, local culture and ritual.
Popularly known as Shivapur Kambar Master in his native district, Chandrashekhara Kambara had his schooling in Gokak and returned to Belagavi for higher education at Lingaraj College.
Chandrashekhara Kambara has been elected as the chairman of Sahitya Academy on 12 February 2018.
Chandrashekhara Kambara served as the chairman of National School of Drama Society, New Delhi from 1996 to 2000 and as the president of Karnataka Nataka Academy from 1980 to 1983.
Chandrashekhara Kambara started using north Karnataka dialect of Kannada in his poems and plays which is not very common in Kannada literature.
Chandrashekhara Kambara is the founder vice-chancellor of the Kannada University at Hampi.
Chandrashekhara Kambara created a separate publication unit for publishing the results of research and project works going on in Kannada University.
Chandrashekhara Kambara is a strong supporter of imparting school education with Kannada language as the medium of instruction.
Chandrashekhara Kambara's justification for this stance is that only mother tongue can provide an "experience," which is an integral part of learning and learning through any other language only gives people "information," which makes them less competent.
Chandrashekhara 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.
Chandrashekhara Kambara was conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for another popular play Sirisampige.
Chandrashekhara Kambara was a pioneer in introducing Bailahongal's famous Sangya Balya and Jokumaraswamy, a traditional ritual of his native district, to the literary world which have seen thousands of performances, not only in Kannada, but several other Indian languages as well.
Apart from his literary career, Chandrashekhara Kambara has been associated with direction of feature films.
Chandrashekhara Kambara's contributions include many documentaries for the Government of Karnataka and Government of India.
Chandrashekhara Kambara is the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, New Delhi, for playwrighting in the year 1983 and the Sahitya Akademi Award, New Delhi, for the play Siri Sampige in 1991.
Chandrashekhara Kambara received the eighth Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language, the highest literary honour conferred in India, in September 2011 for the year 2010.
At a felicitation ceremony held a week after winning the award, the Government of Karnataka announced that it will reprint all works of Chandrashekhara Kambara, including his plays and make them available at all government school libraries.