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25 Brown J. World Aff. 1 (2018-2019)

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa25 and id is 1 raw text is: The Stories, History, and Politics of Climate Change AMITAV GHOSH An Interview with Isabel Alexiades Providence, RI, 12 April 2018 Amitav Ghosh was born in Kolkata (formally Calcutta) and grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction, a col- lection of essays, and eight novels. His books have won prizes in India, Europe, and Myanmar. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of Jndias highest honors, by the president of India. He is married to the writer Deborah Baker and divides his time between Brooklyn, Goa, and Kolkata. The Brown Journal of World Affairs: You were a novelist prior to the pub- lication of The Great Derangement (2016), and you have spoken extensively about the lack of discussions on and narratives of climate change in fiction. How did you choose to write a non-fiction text about climate change? Amitav Ghosh: Well, actually, I came to it through my fiction writing. In 2000, I started working on a book-a novel called The Hungry Tide which is actually set in the mangrove forests of Bengal. The Bengal Delta, which is now divided between India and Bangladesh, has the world's largest mangrove forest. It is an amazing kind of natural environment, but it is also exception- ally vulnerable to climate change. Spending time there from 2000 onward, it became very clear to me that these climate impacts were already occurring on a massive scale. I think that is what really opened my eyes to what is happen- ing around us in this world. Journal: How did you choose to write a non-fiction text rather than fiction- alizing? Copyright © 2018 by the Brown Journal of WorldAffairs FALL/WINTER 2018 - VOLUME XXV, ISSUE I

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