Dilip Chitre

Dilip Purushottam Chitre ( born September 17, 1938 in Baroda, India, † 10 December 2009 in Pune, India) was an Indian writer, painter and film director.

He wrote in English and Marathi. After moving his parents moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1960 published his first collection of poems.

In 1975 he was invited to stay as a guest at the University of Iowa. He also worked as director of Indian Poetry Library, Archives, and Translation Centre at Bharat Bhavan, a cultural center in Bhopal.

Chitre has made ​​as a translator of classical Indian literature, partly from the 12th century into English a name.

As a filmmaker, he made documentaries since 1969. Even as a child he had contact with this medium, so he was given by his father, a Super -8 camera at the age of eight. In the 1990s he turned together with the Munich filmmaker Henning Stegmüller a film about Bombay titled lover juggernaut.

The same background have his stories that have arisen in the course of more than 20 years after 1967 and published in German under the title Bombay quartet. His narrative style is quite close to a documentary filmmaker various settings from different angles with many perspective changes will be merged.

Chitres novel words of Tukaram was born from the confrontation with the life of the born in the 17th century Indian mystic Tukaram.

Dilip Chitre was 45 years with Viju Chitre, an artist and translator, married. Their son died in a tragic accident.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • The banyan tree. Selected poems. A1 Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-927743-89-5.
  • Bombay quartet. Stories. A1 Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-927743-61-5.
  • Words of Tukaram. A1 Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-927743-40-2.
  • Bombay - Mumbai. Pictures of a mega city. Together with Henning Stegmüller and Namdeo Dhasal. A1 Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-927743-26-7.
  • Namdeo Dhasal. Poet of the underworld; poems from 1972 to 2006. Navayana, Pondicherry 2007, ISBN 81-89059-10-6.
  • The sacred heresy. Selected poems of Vinda Karandikar. Sahitya Academic, New Delhi 1998, ISBN 81-260-0590-4.
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