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Dilip Chitre
  • Date of Birth:
    September 17, 1938
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Virgo
  • Place of Birth:
    Baroda, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian

Family

Dilip Chitre
  • Father:
    Purushottam Chitre

Career

Dilip Chitre

Trivia

Dilip Chitre
  • Was member of a three-writer delegation ( along with Nirmal Verma and U. R. Ananthamurthy) to the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia), Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany and France in the spring and summer of 1980.
  • Is working as an honorary editor of the quarterly New Quest, a journal of participative inquiry, Mumbai.
  • Has written most of his films as well as directing or co-directing them, and ha sometimes scored the music for them.
  • Started his professional film career in 1969 and has since made one feature film, about a dozen documentary films, several short films in the cinema format, and about twenty video documentary features.
  • Also convened a world poetry festival in New Delhi followed by an international symposium of poets in Bhopal.
  • Has also worked as a director of the Indian Poetry Library, archive, and translation centre at Bharat Bhavan, a multi arts foundation, Bhopal.
  • In 1975, he was invited by the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, in the United States.
  • His father Purushottam Chitre used to publish a periodical named Abhiruchi which was highly treasured for its high, uncompromising quality.
  • Was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938.
  • Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he is also a painter and filmmaker.

Biography

Dilip Chitre
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Dilip Chitre is an Indian writer, a painter as well as a filmmaker. He was born on September 17, 1938 in Baroda. His family moved to Mumbai in 1951 and he published his first collection of poems in 1960. Later, he served as the director of the Indian Poetry Library, Archive and Translation Centre at Bharat Bhavan, a multi arts foundation in Bhopal.

Dilip started his film career in 1969. He has made several documentary films. He scripted the Hindi film Vijeta (1982) and wrote the theme poem for the Hindi film Ardha Satya (1983). He also directed the Hindi film Godam (1983). He has given lectures and conducted workshops in creative writing and literary translation in various cities around the world. He has written several books and poems in English, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and German languages such as Ambulance Ride (1972), Traveling In A Cage (1980), Tata-McGraw-Hill (1980), Pisati ka Burz: Dileep Chitre ki Chuni Huvi Kavitaayen (1987), Milton-na Mahaakaavyo (1970), The Mountain (1998), No-Moon Monday On The River Karha (2000) etc. He has also served as a columnist for Indian newspapers like Free Press Journal (Mumbai), Loksatta (Mumbai) and Dinank (Mumbai).

Dilip is the Honorary President and also a Founder-Trustee of the Sonthhheimer Cultural Association. Dilip was honored with the Sahitya Academy award in 1994.

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