Dilip Chitre

Dilip Chitre was born in 1938 in Baroda, Gujarat, India. He is a poet, translator, painter, filmmaker and editor. His collected Marathi poems published in three volumes--- Ekoon Kavita--I, II, and III— contain all of his published and unpublished poems since 1954. He has a collection of short stories, a collection of four novellas, four collections of essays, one volume of critical writings, and two plays among his Marathi opus. He has published an anthology of contemporary Marathi poetry in translation.
His other books of translations include: Says Tuka (Penguin), Anubhavamrut (Sahitya Akademi), and Virus Alert. His English poetry books and chapbooks are: Travelling in a Cage, Ambulance Ride, The Mountain, and No Moon Monday at the River Karha.. His English poems are included in every major anthology of Indian poetry, including, most recently, Post Climactic Love Poem (Aark Arts). He has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ekoon Kavita-I and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Says Tuka.
He was a Fellow of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa and a writer-in-residence at the Villa Waldberta, Munich. His feature film, Godam, won the Jury's Special Prize at the Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes, France. He is the editor of New Quest , A Quarterly Journal of Participative Inquiry. Chitre lives with his wife Viju in Pune, Maharashtra.