Given the question: Facts: - death place: mumbai , maharashtra , india - caption: kannada - influences: kahlil , gibran , george william russell , rabindranath tagore - death date: 26 october 1981 - genre: fiction - pseudonym: ambikatanayadatta - birth date: 31 january 1896 - name: dattatreya ramachandra bendre - movement: navodaya - nationality: indian - image: drbendre.jpg - birth place: dharwad , bombay presidency , british india - occupation: teacher , poet Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of d. r. bendre .
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dattatreya ramachandra bendre -lrb- 31 january 1896 -- 26 october 1981 -rrb- , popularly known as da .ra .bendre , was one of the most notable kannada poets of the navodaya period .he was given the honorific '' varakavi '' -lrb- ' gifted poet ' -rrb- .bendre was awarded the jnanpith award for kannada , the highest literary honor conferred in india .he wrote under the pen-name of '' ambikatanayadatta '' -lrb- '' lit '' , '' datta , child of ambika '' -rrb- .he also held the title '' karnataka kula thilaka '' -lrb- '' the ornament of the kannataka family '' -rrb- conferred by udupi adamaru math .the padma shri was conferred on him by government of india .