Amruta Patil
| Amruta Patil | |
|---|---|
 in 2013 | |
| Born |
19 April, 1979 Pune |
| Occupation | Graphic novelist, painter and writer |
| Nationality | India |
| Period | 2008 - present |
| Genre | Graphic Novel |
Amruta Patil (born 19 April 1979), is an Indian graphic novel author and painter.
Career
Born in 1979, Patil spent her childhood in Cochin and Vasco da Gama, Goa, where her father served in the Indian Navy as an aeronautical engineer.[1] She has an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.[2] She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 2000-2001.[1]
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. [3]
Her two subsequent graphic novels "Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean" and "Sauptik: Blood and Flowers"[4] make up the Parva duology which retells stories from the Mahabharata from the viewpoint of the narrators Ganga and Ashwatthama respectively.
Patil is currently writer-in-residence at La Maison des Auteurs, Angouleme, France. 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.
Books
Awards
- Nari Shakti Award (MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT).[6]
References
- 1 2 "Visual artist and author Amruta Patil breaks new ground with her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
- ↑ "Amruta Patil is a writer and painter". thehindu.com. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
- 1 2 "Amruta Patil | PAUL GRAVETT". www.paulgravett.com. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ↑ http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/WlDuPAn1KNz0F5yBADT8bL/Amruta-Patils-Mahabharat.html
- 1 2 Amruta Patil (10 September 2016). Sauptik: Blood and Flowers. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-93-5264-065-2.
- ↑ "Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa". wcd.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-06-18.