Jump to content

Amruta Patil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amruta Patil
Born19 April 1979 (1979-04-19) (age 45)
Pune, India
OccupationGraphic novelist, painter and writer
NationalityIndian
Period2008 – present
GenreGraphic novels
SubjectMythology, ecology, and intersectional feminism

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

Background

[edit]

Amruta Patil was raised in Goa, where her father served in the Indian Navy.[1][2] 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).[3]

Early career

[edit]

Amruta Patil worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 1999-2000.[2] She was the co-founder and editor of the quarterly magazine, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012).[4] She was awarded a TED Fellowship in 2009.[5]

Graphic Novels

[edit]

Amruta Patil 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.[6][7] A self proclaimed "oddball" who grew up in a small town without much exposure to comics culture, Patil has spoken about her autodidactic process and evolving style.[8] Kari has been the subject of various academic dissertations.[9][10]

Her two subsequent graphic novels Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers[11] form the Parva Duology which retells stories from the Mahabharata from the viewpoint of the outlier 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.[12] The importance of the sutradhar has been reiterated - as a "way of bringing the stories closer to the present."[13]

Amruta Patil with Nari Shakti Puraskar

Her work has been translated into French and Italian.[14]

Her fourth graphic novel - Aranyaka[15] - came about after conversations with her friend, the mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik.[16] Aranyaka was first published by Westland in 2019, and then by HarperCollins India in 2023.[17]

After a decade-long association with "comic book capital" Angoulême (France) and La Maison des Auteurs,[18] a juried residency for comic book auteurs, Patil relocated to India in 2019.

Amruta Patil had a solo show called Altar [19][20] at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2019. She started painting grand format acrylic tableaus in 2020.

She is the co-founder of Qomix, the world’s first non fiction comics app.

Public engagements

[edit]

Amruta Patil was a speaker at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival in 2017.[21]

In 2018, she was a speaker and artist in residence at the School of Divinity, University of Chicago.[22]

Bibliography

[edit]

Awards

[edit]

Amruta Patil 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.[28] [29]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT".
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ "Amruta Patil". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  4. ^ Bell, Melissa A. (9 August 2008). "Amruta Patil / Writer and illustrator". LiveMint. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Amruta Patil - TED Fellow - TED". www.ted.com.
  6. ^ a b "Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT". www.paulgravett.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  7. ^ Menezes, Vivek (26 July 2021). "India's first female graphic novelist Amruta Patil is graphing the future". GQ India. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  8. ^ "In Conversation with Graphic Novelist - Amruta Patil". YouTube. 17 October 2021.
  9. ^ "'Can You See Her the Way I Do?': (Feminist) Ways of Seeing in Amruta Patil's Kari (2008)".
  10. ^ "Exploring Gender, Identity, and Mythology in Kari by Amruta Patil".
  11. ^ Anasuya, Shreya Ila (30 September 2016). "Amruta Patil's Mahabharat". LiveMint. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  12. ^ Harper Broadcast (10 December 2016). "Amruta Patil in conversation with Amrita Tripathi" – via YouTube.
  13. ^ Goel, Mayanka; Aranha, Jovita (3 September 2016). "Reaching for the fire in her heart". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Amruta Patil". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  15. ^ Amruta Patil (14 July 2017). "Aranyaka: Making of a Graphic Novel - Visual-Textual Notes" – via YouTube.
  16. ^ Patil, Amruta (19 April 2017). "Umbilical: What comes next".
  17. ^ a b Das, Ranjabati (27 December 2018). "Making Waves: Amruta Patil". Verve Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  18. ^ "La Maison des Auteurs". la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  19. ^ "A graphic description | the Navhind Times". 22 December 2019.
  20. ^ "Fine arts and the creative role of serendipity". 20 December 2019.
  21. ^ ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival (10 February 2017). "#ZeeJLF2017: Blood and Flowers" – via YouTube.
  22. ^ Gurevitch, Eric Moses. "Forests of Learning & Kari, Adi Parva, and Sauptik: Conversations with Amruta Patil".
  23. ^ Patil, Amruta (2018). Kari. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-81-7223-710-3. OCLC 1122761847.
  24. ^ a b Amruta Patil (10 September 2016). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-93-5264-065-2.
  25. ^ Patil, Amruta (2021). Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean. S.l.: HarperCollins India. ISBN 978-93-5422-761-5. OCLC 1252961473.
  26. ^ Patil, Amruta (2021). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. S.l.: HarperCollins India. ISBN 978-93-5422-936-7. OCLC 1252962687.
  27. ^ Patil, Amruta (2020). Aranyaka: Book of the Forest. OCLC 1140353467.
  28. ^ "Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa". wcd.nic.in. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  29. ^ "Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa | Ministry of Women & Child Development|IN|odwqu".
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amruta_Patil&oldid=1250321179"