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Biography
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. She has an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 2000-2001.
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.
Her two subsequent graphic novels "Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean" and "Sauptik: Blood and Flowers" 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
- Kari (2008)
- Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012)
- Sauptik: Blood and Flowers (2016)
Awards
- Nari Shakti Award (MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT).