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| occupation = Graphic novelist, painter and writer<br />
| nationality = [[India]]<br />
| period = 2008 - present <br />
| genre = Graphic Novel <br />
| subject = Mythology, Ecology, Intersectional Feminism<br />
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'''Amruta Patil''' (born 19 April 1979), is an Indian graphic novel author and painter.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Born in 1979, Patil spent her childhood in [[Goa]].<ref name=bit>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/artist-amruta-patil-breaks-new-ground-with-her-graphic-retelling-of-the-mahabharata/story-nYzNJ4ZvD6df2TJ4oP8H2L.html|title=Visual artist and author Amruta Patil breaks new ground with her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata|date=2016-10-06|first=Soma |last=Das |website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/amruta-patil/article4343945.ece | title=Amruta Patil | date=26 January 2013 | newspaper=The Hindu | access-date=24 September 2018}}</ref> She worked as a copywriter at Enterprise Nexus (Mumbai) in 1999-2000.<ref name=bit/> She was the co-founder and editor of the quarterly magazine, 'Mindfields' (2007-2012).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/7YM5i0qfkyrIQXIHiMp00I/Amruta-Patil--Writer-and-illustrator.html|title=Amruta Patil / Writer and illustrator|last=Bell|first=Melissa A.|date=2008-08-09|website=LiveMint|language=en|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> She was awarded a [[TED Fellowship]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/profiles/299282/fellow|title=Amruta Patil - TED Fellow - TED|website=www.ted.com}}</ref><br />
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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.<ref name=deb>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/amruta_patil|title=Amruta Patil {{!}} PAUL GRAVETT|website=www.paulgravett.com|access-date=2017-06-27}}</ref><br />
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Her two subsequent graphic novels ''Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean'' and ''Sauptik: Blood and Flowers''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/WlDuPAn1KNz0F5yBADT8bL/Amruta-Patils-Mahabharat.html|title=Amruta Patil’s Mahabharat|last=Anasuya|first=Shreya Ila|date=2016-09-30|website=LiveMint|language=en|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref> make up the Parva duology which retells stories from the [[Mahabharata]] from the viewpoint of the 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF7MCCrN_I&t=307s|title=Amruta Patil in conversation with Amrita Tripathi|last=Harper Broadcast|date=10 December 2016|via=YouTube}}</ref> The importance of the ''sutradhar'' has been reiterated - as a "way of bringing the stories closer to the present."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/entertainment/Reaching-for-the-fire-in-her-heart/article14621794.ece|title=Reaching for the fire in her heart|last=Goel|first=Mayanka|date=2016-09-03|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-06-21|last2=Aranha|first2=Jovita|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
[[file:Amruta Patil with Nari Shakti Puraskar (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Amruta Patil with Nari Shakti Puraskar]]<br />
Her work has been translated in [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/amruta-patil/article4343945.ece|title=Amruta Patil|date=2013-01-26|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-06-21|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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Her collaborative project with mythologist [[Devdutt Pattanaik]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amrutapatil.blogspot.com/2017/05/announcement.html|title=Umbilical: What comes next|first=Amruta|last=Patil|date=19 April 2017}}</ref> - a graphic novel, ''Aranyaka: Book of the Forest''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsqCxb4dVz8|title=Aranyaka: Making of a Graphic Novel - Visual-Textual Notes|last=Amruta Patil|date=14 July 2017|via=YouTube}}</ref> - was published by Westland in October 2019.<ref name="VerveWaves2018">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vervemagazine.in/people/making-waves-amruta-patil|title=Making Waves: Amruta Patil|first=Ranjabati|last=Das|date=2018-12-27|website=Verve Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref> <br />
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She was a speaker at the Zee [[Jaipur Literature Festival]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pLXGAl8uc&t=597s|title=#ZeeJLF2017: Blood and Flowers|last=ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival|date=10 February 2017|via=YouTube}}</ref><br />
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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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wcd.nic.in/nari-shakti-awardees-ms-amruta-patil-goa | title=Nari Shakti Awardees - Ms. Amruta Patil, Goa | publisher=wcd.nic.in | access-date=2017-06-18}}</ref><br />
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After a decade-long association with "comic book capital" Angoulême (France) and La Maison des Auteurs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.citebd.org/spip.php?article142|title= La Maison des Auteurs|date= 2017|publisher= la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image}}</ref> a juried residency for comic book auteurs, Patil relocated to India in 2019. Patil was married to French animator and software innovator Anaël Seghezzi from 2009-2019.<br />
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==Graphic novels==<br />
* ''Kari'' (2008)<ref name=deb/><br />
* ''Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean'' (2012)<ref name="Patil2016"/><br />
* ''Sauptik: Blood and Flowers'' (2016)<ref name="Patil2016">{{cite book|author=Amruta Patil|title=Sauptik: Blood and Flowers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SNOiDgAAQBAJ|date=10 September 2016|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India|isbn=978-93-5264-065-2}}</ref><br />
* ''Aranyaka: Book of the Forest'' (2019)<ref name="VerveWaves2018" /><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* Nari Shakti Puraskar (Ministry of Women and Child Development)<br />
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