Rajat Chaudhuri

Rajat Chaudhuri is a bilingual author, translator and anthologist. His works include novels, short story collections, translations from Bengali, and edited volumes of speculative and solarpunk fiction. His most recent novel, The Butterfly Effect was twice listed by Book Riot as a ‘Fifty must read eco-disasters in fiction’ and among ‘Ten works of environmental literature from around the world’. He is also a featured contributor to video game narratives.

He is a Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow (2014) at the University of Chichester, United Kingdom, a Hawthornden Castle Fellow (2015), Korean Arts Council Fellow-InKo (2013) at Toji Cultural Centre, South Korea and a past resident of the Sangam House International Writers Residency.

Chaudhuri has advocated for climate issues at the United Nations, New York and is involved in climate and sustainability activism with a number of international groups. He speaks on storytelling, positive futures and climate change fiction in a variety of national and international venues including libraries and universities. Chaudhuri writes the popular Eleventh Hour column on environment issues for the New Indian Express.

He lives in Calcutta, India. www.rajatchaudhuri.net Twitter/Instagram: @rajatchaudhuri