Chandrashekar Patil (18 June 1939 – 10 January 2022), popularly known as Champa, was an Indian poet, playwright and public intellectual writing in Kannada.

Champa was the editor of the literary journal Sankramana started with two of his friends Siddalinga Pattanashetti and Giraddi Govindaraj in 1964.

[citation needed] After retiring as professor of English from Karnatak University, Patil served as the President of Kannada Sahitya Parishat and as the Chairman of Kannada Development Authority.

[2] In addition to Kannada language, Patil also wrote in English.

[4][5] Earlier, in 2015, protesting the assassination of his friend and Vachana scholar M. M. Kalburgi, he returned his Pampa Award, the highest literary honour of the government of Karnataka.