A writer of climate novels and co-editor of solarpunk collections, closely involved with the climate movement, who writes and speaks about climate, literature and possible futures.
Author of acclaimed climate novels like The Butterfly Effect and Spellcasters and short story collections like Hotel Calcutta and Calculus. Chaudhuri has also edited The Best Asian Speculative Fiction anthology and co-edited two international collections of solarpunk stories – Solarpunk Creatures and the bestselling Multispecies Cities-Solarpunk Urban Futures. His translated works include Calcutta Nights based on Hemendra Kumar Roy’s gothic memoir Raater Kolkata and a collection featuring a hundred poems by ten emerging Bengali poets. He is a bilingual writer who has also published fiction in Bangla.
A British Council-Charles Wallace Fellow and Hawthornden Castle Fellow, Chaudhuri is closely involved with the climate movement and writes and speaks frequently about climate, literature and possible futures at local and global venues. He has been a contributor to the UNDP Human Development Report and has represented civil society organisations at the United Nations. Chaudhuri has also contributed narratives for the internationally acclaimed climate video game ‘Survive the Century’. Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet, Chaudhuri’s book of cautionary and redemptive stories of climate change for young adults will appear in June 2025.
Quarantine Connection
Rajat is one of our members featuring their work as part of the ClimateCultures Quarantine Connection series. We shared his piece, Heat or the Iceberg Chill, translation, on Day 23 of the 40-day series.
Rajat's ClimateCultures posts
Spellcasters – a Dance with the Real and the Uncanny