Krishna Murthy Chandar taught English at the University of Mysore for more than three decades. He has published four collections of short stories, five plays, and two novels in Kannada and has translated more than five Kannada fictional works into English. His collection of short stories, Asmite, won the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Award (2021). His translation of Prof Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s Uriya Nalige into English, titled The Flaming Tongue, won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award (2010). His translation of Sri K V Subbanna’s critical essays, titled Kavirajamarga and the Kannada World, won the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award (2022).

His recent translations include K P Poornachandra Tejaswi’s Kannada novel Mayaloka and Chandrashekar Kambar’s collection of folk tales, Savadatti Yellamma and Other Folk Tales. His novel Kanchana Seetha has been translated into Tamil and Telugu. He has also published five collections of essays in literary criticism, both in English and Kannada.