In his poem ‘Bhaavajeevi’, nostalgic records for the years of Channavavea Kanavi spent when a child in the pastoral background of North Karnataka Village is almost heard.
However, Kanavi is not without a reservation about rural life.
In the same work, Kanavi also puts empty from the caste system that survives in the Idyll countryside.
Channavera Kanavi missed pastoral, and its ODE for the simplicity of rural life, dating back to years spent through childhood and childhood in a small village.
Kanavi was born in a hombal on what now Gadag District, part of the Dharwad district that was not divided, on June 18, 1928.
While the early days of the rural backwaters of North Karnataka will leave an indelible trail in his memory, it was in the Dharwad Kanavi the poet was born .
Indeed, in many parts of his poetry, Kanavi Waxes lyrical about the influence of the city has it, as if seeking to pay for his debt to Dharwad in verse.
Kanavi studied at RLS High School in Dharwad; In the early years at Dharwad, Murugha Mutt was his home.
After the matriculation, Kanavi registered in the BA program in Karnatak College, where, under the future the future Jnanpith Awardee Vinayak Krishna Gokak, who later became the principal, poet in Kanavi bloom.
Kanavi continued to get the Supreme Court in Kannada from the University of Karnatak in 1952, after he joined the wing of the Varsity publication, where he would continue to work until retirement in 1983.
The author of productive, Kanavi literary output was nothing if not extraordinary.
Starting with ‘kavyakshi’, published when he was only 21 of 1949, Kanavi published 26 collection of poems, besides that he had 28 literary criticism books and a collection of essays for his credit.
One award after the Kanavi literary genius is recognized.
He won the Kendra Sahitya Academy award for the Poems ‘Jeevadhwani’ collection in 1982, The Karnataka Sahitya Award in 1985, The Rajyotsava Award in 1989, Pampa Award a decade later.
Almamater Mater, the University of Karnatak, gave him the honorary doctor in 2004, while he was found with ‘Nadoja’ Dlitt by Hampi Kannada University two years earlier.
The Ambikatanaya Datta National Award in 2012 was sitting in a heap of awards as a long and fruitful career crown gem.
In addition to many awards that come, Kanavi occupies many key positions in the literary body, the opportunities he used to advance the causes of Kannada.
He is a member of Kendra Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Kannada Book Authority and Syndicate of the Karnatak University.
He also served as President of the Kannada Development Authority, and the Organizing Committee of Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama.
In 1996, he was named President Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held at Hassan, and in 2016, inaugurated Mysuru Dasara Festivity.
Verses Kanavi Reflexive, and, in the use of aphoristic intelligence calculated, seems to bring the legacy of Sharana poet.