Dilip Chitre

Dilip Chitre
Born(1938-09-17)17 September 1938
Baroda, Baroda State, British India
Died10 December 2009(2009-12-10) (aged 71)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
OccupationPoet, translator, painter, fiction writer, critic, film maker
Literary movementIndian Modernism postmodernism
SpouseVijoo Chitre
ChildrenAshay Chitre

Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a notable bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a teacher, a painter, a filmmaker and a magazine columnist.