Dilip Chitre

DILIP PURUSHOTTAM CHITRE (1938–2009) was a bilingual poet and critic writing in Marathi and English, besides being a painter, film-maker and translator. He was the co-founder and editor of Shabda, the influential little magazine dedicated to Marathi poetry. The first volume of his collected Marathi poems, Ekoon Kavita, received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1994. The same year, he received a Sahitya Akademi translation prize for his translations of the saint–poet Tukaram’s poems in Says Tuka. He also translated the thirteenth-century mystic poet Shri Jnandev’s Anubhavamrut.