Amruta Patil

Amruta Patil (born 19 April 1979), is an Indian graphic novel author and painter.

Amruta Patil
Born (1979-04-19) 19 April 1979
Pune
OccupationGraphic novelist, painter and writer
NationalityIndia
Period2008 - present
GenreGraphic Novel
SubjectMythology, Ecology, Intersectional Feminism

Career

Born in 1979, Patil spent her childhood in Goa.[1] She has a BFA degree from Goa College of Art (1999), and Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2004).[2] She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 1999-2000.[1] She was the co-founder and editor of the quarterly magazine, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012).[3] She was awarded a TED Fellowship in 2009.[4]

Her debut graphic novel, Kari, commissioned and published by VK Karthika at HarperCollins India, explored themes of sexuality, friendship and death; and heralded Patil as India's first female graphic novelist.[5]

Her two subsequent graphic novels Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers[6] make up the Parva duology which retells stories from the Mahabharata from the viewpoint of the narrators (sutradhar) Ganga and Ashwatthama respectively. Speaking about these two novels, she talks about her decision to choose the two above-mentioned narrators because of their peripheral role in traditional retellings of the lore.[7] The importance of the sutradhar has been reiterated - as a "way of bringing the stories closer to the present."[8]

Amruta Patil with Nari Shakti Puraskar

Her work has been translated in French and Italian.[9]

Her collaborative project with mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik[10] - a graphic novel, Aranyaka: Book of the Forest[11] - was published by Westland in October 2019.[12]

She was a speaker at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in 2017.[13]

She was awarded the Ministry of Women and Child Development's Nari Shakti Puraskar in March 2017 at the hands of the 13th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.[14]

After a decade-long association with "comic book capital" Angoulême (France) and La Maison des Auteurs,[15] a juried residency for comic book auteurs, Patil relocated to India in 2019. Patil was married to French animator and software innovator Anaël Seghezzi from 2009-2019.

Graphic novels
  • Kari (2008)[5]
  • Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012)[16]
  • Sauptik: Blood and Flowers (2016)[16]
  • Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019)[12]

Awards
  • Nari Shakti Puraskar (Ministry of Women and Child Development)

References
  1. Das, Soma (6 October 2016). "Visual artist and author Amruta Patil breaks new ground with her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  2. "Amruta Patil". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. Bell, Melissa A. (9 August 2008). "Amruta Patil / Writer and illustrator". LiveMint. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  4. "Amruta Patil - TED Fellow - TED". www.ted.com.
  5. "Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT". www.paulgravett.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  6. Anasuya, Shreya Ila (30 September 2016). "Amruta Patil's Mahabharat". LiveMint. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  7. Harper Broadcast (10 December 2016). "Amruta Patil in conversation with Amrita Tripathi" – via YouTube.
  8. Goel, Mayanka; Aranha, Jovita (3 September 2016). "Reaching for the fire in her heart". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  9. "Amruta Patil". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  10. Patil, Amruta (19 April 2017). "Umbilical: What comes next".
  11. Amruta Patil (14 July 2017). "Aranyaka: Making of a Graphic Novel - Visual-Textual Notes" – via YouTube.
  12. Das, Ranjabati (27 December 2018). "Making Waves: Amruta Patil". Verve Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  13. ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival (10 February 2017). "#ZeeJLF2017: Blood and Flowers" – via YouTube.
  14. "Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa". wcd.nic.in. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  15. "La Maison des Auteurs". la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image. 2017.
  16. Amruta Patil (10 September 2016). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-93-5264-065-2.
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