Dilip chitre poet biography

Marathi Poet

Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Asian poets and critics to surface in the post Independence Bharat.

Apart from being a noteworthy bilingual writer, writing in Mahratti and English, he was further a teacher, a painter, neat filmmaker and a magazine writer.

Biography

Chitre was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938 jamming a Marathi speaking CKP humans. His father Purushottam Chitre tatty to publish a periodical baptized Abhiruchi.

His grandfather, Kashinath Gupte was an expert on Tukaram and this served as Chitre's introduction to the poet.^[1] Chitre's family moved to Mumbai crop 1951 and he published dominion first collection of poems amusement 1960. He was one gaze at the earliest and the bossy important influences behind the eminent "little magazine movement" of nobility sixties in Marathi.

He begun Shabda with Arun Kolatkar direct Ramesh Samarth. In 1975, yes was awarded a visiting sharing alliance by the International Writing Plan of the University of Siouan in Iowa City, Iowa preparation the United States. He has also worked as a controller of the Indian Poetry Think over, archive, and translation centre move away Bharat Bhavan, a multi discipline foundation.

He also convened first-class world poetry festival in Novel Delhi followed by an global symposium of poets in Bhopal. He was educated both encompass Baroda and Mumbai.

After dinky long bout with cancer, Dilip Chitre died at his habitat in Pune on 10 Dec 2009.^[2]

Works

Poetry

Chitre was a bilingual essayist, but wrote mostly in Mahratti.

His Ekun Kavita or Composed Poems were published in birth 1990s in three volumes. As Is, Where Is selected Decently poems (1964–2007) and "Shesha" Frankly translation of selected Marathi poetry, both published by Poetrywala, were published in 2007. He likewise edited An Anthology of Mahratti Poetry (1945–1965).^{[citation needed]} He was an accomplished translator of writing style and poetry.

His most illustrious translation was of the renowned 17th century Marathi bhakti rhymer Tukaram (published as Says Tuka). He translated Anubhavamrut by 12th century bhakti poet Dnyaneshwar. Good taste also wrote poetry in Arts. Travelling in a Cage (1980) was his first and sui generis incomparabl book of English poems.

Exile, alienation, self-disintegration and death blank major themes in Chitre's 1 which belongs essentially to honesty Modernist Movement. It reflects debonair culture, urban sensibilities, uses sham expressions and ironic tones.

Films

He started his professional film job in 1969 and made unified feature film, about a xii documentary films, several short cinema and about 20 video pic features.

He wrote the scripts of most of his movies as well as directed minor-league co-directed them. He also scored the music for some jurisdiction them.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

Among Chitre's honours and awards are many Maharashtra State Awards, the Prix Special du Jury for wreath film Godam at the Anniversary des Trois Continents in 1984, the Ministry of Human Reserve Development's Emeritua Fellowship, the School of Iowa's International Writing Info Fellowship, the Indira Gandhi Connection, and the Villa Waldberta Companionship for residence given by picture City of Munich, Bavaria, Deutschland.

He was a D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange) Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bamberg in Germany layer 1991–92. He was Director remark Vagarth, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal suffer convenor-director of the Valmiki Faux Poetry Festival (New Delhi,1985) contemporary International Symposium of Poets (Bhopal, 1985), a Keynote Speaker resort to the World Poetry Congress suspend Maebashi, Japan (1996) and file the Ninth International Conference conference Maharashtra at Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA in 2001 and Party of the International Jury affection the Literature festival Berlin, 2001.

He was member of ingenious three-writer delegation (along with Nirmal Verma and U. R. Ananthamurthy) to the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia), Hungary, primacy Federal Republic of Germany endure France in the spring attend to summer of 1980 and get on to the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Metropolis, Germany in 1986.

He was Honorary President of the Sontheimer Cultural Association, of which grace was also a Founder-Trustee.

Bibliography

In Marathi

• Kavita, Mouj Prakashan, Mumbai, 1960
• Orpheus, Mouj Prakashan, Mumbai,1968; 2nd Ed: Shabdalay Prakashan, Srirampur,2010
• Sheeba Raneechya Shodhaat, Majestic Prakashan, Mumbai,1969
• Kavitenantarchyaa Kavita, Vacha Prakashan, Aurangabad,1978
• Chaavyaa; Pras Prakashan, Metropolis, 1983
• Dahaa By Dahaa, Pras Prakashan, Mumbai, 1983
• Mithu Mithu Porat ani Sutak, Saket Prakashan, Aurangabad,1989
• Tirkas Ani Chaukas, Lok Vangmay Griha, Mumbai;1980;2nd Ed: Shabdalay Prakashan, Srirampur,2010
• Punha Tukaram, S.K.Belvalkar, Pune, 1990; 2nd edition: Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 1995; Ordinal edition:Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 2001
• Shatakaanchaa Sandhikaal, Lok Vangmay Griha, Mumbai
• Bhau Padhye Yanchyaa Shreshtha Kathaa ( Editor), Lok Vangmay Griha, Mumbai, 1995
• Ekoon Kavita-1, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 1992; 2nd edition:1995
• Ekoon Kavita-2, Popular Prakashan; Mumbai;1995
• Ekoon Kavita-3, Popular Prakashan; Mumbai
• Chaturang, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai;1995
• Tukobache Vaikunthagaman, Shabdalay Prakashan, Srirampur,2010
• Agatikanche Jaagatikikaran, Shabdalay Prakashan, Srirampur,2010
• Kavi Kai Kaam Karto(in Gujarati and English translation), Poetrywala, Mumbai,2010

In English

• An Anthology of Sanskrit Poetry (1945–1965) (Editor), Nirmala-Sadanand, City, 1968
• Ambulance Ride, Self, Mumbai, 1972
• Travelling in a Cage; Clearing House; Mumbai; 1980
• The Reasoning Vision: Jehangir Sabavala’s Painterly Universe, Introduction post Notes on the paintings do without Dilip Chitre
• Tata-McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1980
• Says Tuka: Translation of Tukaram, Penguin, 1991
• Tender Ironies: A Tribute Make Lothar Lutze (Editor), Manohar, Virgin Delhi, 1994
• Shri Jnandev’s Anubhavamrut: Prestige Immortal Experience of Being, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1996
• The Mountain, Vijaya Chitre, Pune, 1998
• No-Moon Mon On The River Karha, Vijaya Chitre, Pune, 2000
• Virus Alert: Poems of Hemant Divate,( chimp translator) Mumbai: Poetrywala, 2003
• Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underground: Poems 1972–2006 (as Translator), Navayana Publishing, Chennai, 2007
• As Obey, Where Is: Selected Poems, Poetrywala, Mumbai,2008
• Shesha: Selected Marathi rhyming in English Translation, Poetrywala, City, 2008
• Felling of the Banyan Tree
• Father Returning Home

In Hindi

• Pisati ka Burz: Dileep Chitre ki Chuni Huvi Kavitaayen, translated by Chandrakant Deotale, Rajkamal, New Delhi, 1987

In Gujarati

• Milton-na Mahaakaavyo, translated by Yashwant Dashi and the author, Parichay Pustakavali, Mumbai, 1970
• Kavya Vishva Shreni: Marathi: Dileep Chitre, translated by Jaya Mehta, Gujarat Sahitya Academy, Gandhinagar

In German

• Das Fallen des Banyanbaums, translated by Lothar Lutze, Botschaft filch Bundesrepublik Deutschland, New Delhi, 1980
• Bombay/Mumbai: Bilder einer Mega-Stadt (with Henning Stegmuller and Namdeo Dhasal) translated by Lothar Lutze, A-1 Verlag, Munchen
• Worte des Tukaram, Translated disrespect Lothar Lutze, A=1 Verlag, Munchen
• Lotos Blatter 1: Dilip Chitre: Aus dem Englischen und dem Mahratti, translated by Lothar Lutze, Proben Indische Poesie: Lotos Verlag Roland Beer; Berlin, 2001

Paintings and exhibitions

• 1969, First One Man Show claim Oil Paintings; Bombay; India;
• 1975, Manifold Triptych; in collaboration with Dick Clarke and Ahmed Muhammad Imamovic; Iowa City, Iowa; USA;
• Participation suggestion group shows in India shaft the Netherlands;
• Dilip Chitre 63: Mini-Retrospective of Paintings in Pune (1986–2001); Studio S, Pune;2001;
• In the gleaning of Air-India International, Bombay, India;

Filmography and videography

• Vijeta, produced by Filmvalas, Mumbai, directed by Govind Nihalani; story and screenplay
• Godam, produced building block the National Film Development Pot, Mumbai; screenplay, direction, and music
• Ardha Satya, directed by Govind Nihalani; theme poem
• A Tryst With Destiny, produced by S.S.

  Oberoi; scenario and direction

• Education '72, produced stomachturning S.S. Oberoi; script and direction
• A Question of Identity, produced stomach-turning Y.R.Khandekar; script, direction, and narration
• Dattu, produced by Dnyada Naik; hand and direction
• Made in India, farmer, scriptwriter, and director, on good of the Industrial Design Midst, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbao
• Bombay:Geliebte Moloch, produced by Adanos-Film, gmbh, Munich, Germany; Co-Scriptwriter service C-Director; Videofilms Made For Blue blood the gentry Archives of Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1984–85)
• Shakti Chattopadhyaya: Portrait of nobleness Poet, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; Concept, Script, and Direction
• Translating Shakti Chattopadhyaya into English: precise discussion with Jyotirmoy Datta arm Arvind Krishna Meherotra, concept gift direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• Translating Shakti Chattopadhyaya into Sanskrit a discussion with Kedar Nath Singh and Prayag Shukla, form and direction
• Shamsher Bahadur Singh: Spruce up Portrait of the Poet, hypothesis and direction
• Shamsher Bahadur Singh oppress discussion with Namvar Singh endure Ashok Vajpeyi, Concept and Guiding, produced by Bharat Bhavan Bhopal
• K.Satchidanandan: A Portrait of the Bard and a discussion by Sudha Gopalakrishnan and Rajendra Dhodapkar, thought and direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• In The Darkness classic the Twentieth Century: A challenge featuring Shrikant, Verma, Namvar Singh, and Ashok Vajpeyi, concept be first direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• Kunwar Narayan: A Portrait accuse the Poet, Concept and Give directions, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• B.C.Sanyal: Memories of Life and Outlook at 82, concept and direction; for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
• Narayan Surve: A Poet of Character Proliterait (in Marathi, Hindi, good turn English versions), 2000

Editor

• Shabda (1954–1960), Mumbai
• New Quest (1978–1980), (2001–), Mumbai

Columnist

• The Painless Press Journal, Mumbai (1959–1960)
• Loksatta, Mumbai
• Dinank, Mumbai
• Ravivar Sakal, Pune
• Quest
• New Quest
• Abhiruchi

Occasional volume reviewer/contributor of articles

References

External links

Online Poetry