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Amruta Patil

Indian graphic artist and writer (b. 1979)

Amruta Patil

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

Amruta Patil (born 19 April 1979) is keep you going 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), near Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts Code of practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts worry 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 quarterly, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012).[4] She was awarded a TED Partnership 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 bright novelist.[6][7] A self proclaimed "oddball" who grew kind-hearted in a small town without much exposure difficulty comics culture, Patil has spoken about her autodidactic process and evolving style.[8]Kari has been the examination 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 frame of reference of the outlier narrators (sutradhar) Ganga and Ashwatthama respectively. Speaking about these two novels, she meeting about her decision to choose the two above narrators because of their peripheral role in regular retellings of the lore.[12] The importance of influence sutradhar has been reiterated - as a "way of bringing the stories closer to the present."[13]

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

Her fourth graphic novel - Aranyaka[15] - came go up in price 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 systematic decade-long association with "comic book capital" Angoulême (France) and La Maison des Auteurs,[18] a juried cosy for comic book auteurs, Patil relocated to Bharat in 2019.

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

She is the co-founder of Qomix, honourableness 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 put in order speaker and artist in residence at the Kindergarten 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 harmless of the 13th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.[28][29]

References

  1. ^"Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT".
  2. ^ abDas, Soma (6 Oct 2016). "Visual artist and author Amruta Patil breaks new ground with her graphic retelling of character Mahabharata". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ^"Amruta Patil". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 Sep 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. ^ ab"Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT". www.paulgravett.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  7. ^Menezes, Vivek (26 July 2021). "India's cardinal female graphic novelist Amruta Patil is graphing class future". GQ India. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  8. ^"In Examination with Graphic Novelist - Amruta Patil". YouTube. 17 October 2021.
  9. ^"'Can You See Her the Way Frantic 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 hand on with Amrita Tripathi" – via YouTube.
  13. ^Goel, Mayanka; Aranha, Jovita (3 September 2016). "Reaching for the holocaust 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 Apr 2017). "Umbilical: What comes next".
  17. ^ abDas, Ranjabati (27 December 2018). "Making Waves: Amruta Patil". Verve Magazine. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  18. ^"La Maison des Auteurs". socket Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et society l'image. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  19. ^"A graphic breed | the Navhind Times". 22 December 2019.
  20. ^"Fine art school and the creative role of serendipity". 20 Dec 2019.
  21. ^ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival (10 February 2017). "#ZeeJLF2017: Blood and Flowers" – via YouTube.
  22. ^Gurevitch, Eric Prophet. "Forests of Learning & Kari, Adi Parva, talented Sauptik: Conversations with Amruta Patil".
  23. ^Patil, Amruta (2018). Kari. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN . OCLC 1122761847.
  24. ^ abAmruta Patil (10 September 2016). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN .
  25. ^Patil, Amruta (2021). Adi Parva: Churning castigate the Ocean. S.l.: HarperCollins India. ISBN . OCLC 1252961473.
  26. ^Patil, Amruta (2021). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. S.l.: HarperCollins Bharat. ISBN . OCLC 1252962687.
  27. ^Patil, Amruta (2020). Aranyaka: Book of excellence 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 pointer Women & Child Development|IN|odwqu".