Dilip Chitre is a bilingual writer with numerous publications in different literary genres including poetry, fiction, plays, screenplays, essays, and criticism to his credit. A winner of the Katha Award for Creative Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ekoon Kavita-1 and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Says Tuka, he has won an award for his film Godam at the Festival des Trois Continents at Nantes, France. He is a practising painter and lives in Pune.