Amruta Patil, writer and painter, is India’s first female graphic novelist. She is the author of the queer cult classic ‘Kari‘ (HarperCollins 2008), Mahabharata-based ‘Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean‘ (2012) and ‘Sauptik: Blood and Flowers‘ (2016), and the Vedic/ecofeminist parable ‘Aranyaka‘ (2019).
Patil was artist in residence at La Maison des Auteurs and has a long association with the “comics capital of France”, Angoulême. In 2017, she received a Nari Shakti Puraskar from the President of India for “unusual work that breaks boundaries” in art and literature.
Amruta Patil’s forthcoming graphic novel, The Rihla, is represented by A Suitable Agency. Patil stitches together, in her distinct and unclassifiable style, an alternate ethnography set in present times — a lush appliqué of the mundane and the mythic, art and art objects, cultures and chromatic study, Eros and belonging, seekers and escape artists.