Amitav Ghosh, noted fiction and non-fiction author, spoke before a group of attendees at the Tempe Center for the Arts on Tuesday night, bringing his message of environmentalism to an event titled "War, Race and Empire in the Anthropocene."


The event was presented by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and focused largely on how the Western ideology and empire have shaped the landscape of global warming. The talk drew upon his latest book, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable."


Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, and most recently, River of Smoke.


In 2011 he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Prize in Montreal and in 2016 he was elected an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Tata Mumbai Literature Festival.


Following his talk, Ghosh took questions from the audience, as well as participated in a book signing with interested attendees.

You can find photos from the event here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskTyJvtk