Dilip Chitre
Dilip Purushottam Chitre (born September 17, 1938 in Baroda , India , † December 10, 2009 in Pune , India) was an Indian writer , painter and director .
He wrote in English and Marathi . After his parents moved to Bombay (now Mumbai ), his first collections of poetry appeared in 1960.
In 1975 he was invited to the University of Iowa for a guest stay . He also worked as director of the Indian Poetry Library, Archive, and Translation Center at Bharat Bhavan , a cultural center in Bhopal .
Chitre has also made a name for himself as a translator of classical Indian literature, partly from the 12th century, into English.
As a filmmaker he has been making documentaries since 1969. He was already in contact with this medium as a child, so at the age of eight he received a Super 8 camera from his father. In the 1990s he made a film about Bombay with the Munich filmmaker Henning Stegmüller, entitled Geliebter Moloch .
His stories, which were written more than 20 years after 1967 and published in German under the title Bombay Quartet , have the same background . His way of narrating is similar to that of a documentary filmmaker: Different shots from different angles with numerous changes of perspective are put together.
Chitre's novel Words of Tukaram emerged from the examination of the life of the Indian mystic Tukaram, who was born in the 17th century .
Dilip Chitre was married to Viju Chitre, an artist and translator, for 45 years. Their son was killed in a tragic accident.
Awards
- 1984 Special Jury Prize at the Nantes Film Festival for the feature film Godam
- 1994 Sahitya Akademi Award in the "Translation" section
Works (selection)
as an author
- 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 the Tukaram . A1 Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-927743-40-2 .
- Bombay Mumbai. Images of a megacity . Together with Henning Stegmüller and Namdeo Dhasal. A1 Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-927743-26-7 .
as editor
- Namdeo Dhasal . Poet of the underworld; poems 1972-2006 . Navayana, Pondicherry 2007, ISBN 81-89059-10-6 .
- The sacred heresy. Selected poems of Vinda Karandikar . Sahitya Akad., New Delhi 1998, ISBN 81-260-0590-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dilip Chitre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dilip Chitre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chitre, Dilip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chitre, Dilip Purushottam (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian writer, painter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baroda , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2009 |
| Place of death | Pune , India |