Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India.
15 Facts About Dilip Chitre
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Dilip Chitre's grandfather, Kashinath Gupte was an expert on Tukaram and this served as Chitre's introduction to the poet.
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Dilip Chitre's family moved to Mumbai in 1951 and he published his first collection of poems in 1960.
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Dilip Chitre was one of the earliest and the most important influences behind the famous "little magazine movement" of the sixties in Marathi.
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Dilip Chitre started Shabda with Arun Kolatkar and Ramesh Samarth.
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Dilip Chitre has worked as a director of the Indian Poetry Library, archive, and translation centre at Bharat Bhavan, a multi arts foundation.
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Dilip Chitre convened a world poetry festival in New Delhi followed by an international symposium of poets in Bhopal.
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Dilip Chitre was a bilingual writer, but wrote mostly in Marathi.
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Dilip Chitre was an accomplished translator of prose and poetry.
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Dilip Chitre translated Anubhavamrut by twelfth century bhakti poet Dnyaneshwar.
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Dilip Chitre started his professional film career in 1969 and made one feature film, about a dozen documentary films, several short films and about 20 video documentary features.
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Dilip Chitre wrote the scripts of most of his films as well as directed or co-directed them.
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Dilip Chitre was Director of Vagarth, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal and convenor-director of the Valmiki World Poetry Festival and International Symposium of Poets, a Keynote Speaker at the World Poetry Congress in Maebashi, Japan and at the Ninth International Conference on Maharashtra at Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA in 2001 and Member of the International Jury at the Literature festival Berlin, 2001.
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Dilip Chitre was member of a three-writer delegation to the Soviet Union, Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany and France in the spring and summer of 1980 and to the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany in 1986.
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Dilip Chitre was Honorary President of the Sontheimer Cultural Association, of which he was a Founder-Trustee.