Amruta Patil Explained

Amruta Patil
Birth Date: df=yes 19 April 1979
Birth Place:Pune, India
Occupation:Graphic novelist, painter and writer
Nationality:Indian
Period:2008 – present
Genre:Graphic novels
Subject:Mythology, ecology, and intersectional feminism

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

Background

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

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

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] thumb|left|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

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

Awards

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT .
  2. Web site: Visual artist and author Amruta Patil breaks new ground with her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata. 2016-10-06. Soma . Das . Hindustan Times. en. 2019-06-21.
  3. News: Amruta Patil . 26 January 2013 . The Hindu . 24 September 2018.
  4. Web site: Amruta Patil / Writer and illustrator. Bell. Melissa A.. 2008-08-09. LiveMint. en. 2019-06-21.
  5. Web site: Amruta Patil - TED Fellow - TED. www.ted.com.
  6. Web site: Amruta Patil PAUL GRAVETT. www.paulgravett.com. 2017-06-27.
  7. Web site: Menezes . Vivek . 26 July 2021 . India's first female graphic novelist Amruta Patil is graphing the future . 8 May 2022 . GQ India . en-IN.
  8. Web site: In Conversation with Graphic Novelist - Amruta Patil . . 17 October 2021 .
  9. Web site: 'Can You See Her the Way I Do?': (Feminist) Ways of Seeing in Amruta Patil's Kari (2008).
  10. Web site: Exploring Gender, Identity, and Mythology in Kari by Amruta Patil.
  11. Web site: Amruta Patil's Mahabharat. Anasuya. Shreya Ila. 2016-09-30. LiveMint. en. 2019-06-21.
  12. Web site: Amruta Patil in conversation with Amrita Tripathi. Harper Broadcast. 10 December 2016. YouTube.
  13. News: Reaching for the fire in her heart. Goel. Mayanka. 2016-09-03. The Hindu. 2019-06-21. Aranha. Jovita. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  14. News: Amruta Patil. 2013-01-26. The Hindu. 2019-06-21. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  15. Web site: Aranyaka: Making of a Graphic Novel - Visual-Textual Notes. Amruta Patil. 14 July 2017. YouTube.
  16. Web site: Umbilical: What comes next. Amruta. Patil. 19 April 2017.
  17. Web site: Making Waves: Amruta Patil. Ranjabati. Das. 2018-12-27. Verve Magazine. en-US. 2019-06-23.
  18. Web site: La Maison des Auteurs. 2017. la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image. 16 February 2020. 3 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220703003536/http://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article142. dead.
  19. Web site: A graphic description | the Navhind Times . 22 December 2019 .
  20. Web site: Fine arts and the creative role of serendipity . 20 December 2019 .
  21. Web site:
    1. ZeeJLF2017: Blood and Flowers
    . ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. 10 February 2017. YouTube.
  22. Web site: Forests of Learning & Kari, Adi Parva, and Sauptik: Conversations with Amruta Patil . Gurevitch . Eric Moses .
  23. Book: Patil, Amruta . Kari . 2018 . HarperCollins Publishers India . 978-81-7223-710-3 . 1122761847.
  24. Book: Patil, Amruta . Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean. . 2021 . HarperCollins India . 978-93-5422-761-5 . S.l. . English . 1252961473.
  25. Book: Amruta Patil. Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. 10 September 2016. HarperCollins Publishers India. 978-93-5264-065-2.
  26. Book: Patil, Amruta . Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. . 2021 . HarperCollins India . 978-93-5422-936-7 . S.l. . English . 1252962687.
  27. Book: Patil, Amruta . Aranyaka: Book of the Forest . 2020 . English . 1140353467.
  28. Web site: Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa . wcd.nic.in . 2017-06-18.
  29. Web site: Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa | Ministry of Women & Child Development|IN|odwqu .

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