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Vajra Chandrasekera

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Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is online at https://vajra.me. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors won the Nebula and Crawford awards, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023. His second novel Rakesfall is out in 2024. ...more

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Creeping by Daylight

In the aftermath of Rakesfall winning the Le Guin Prize, I have a meaty new interview up at Reactor, a short one at Tasavvur, and a third, unfortunately paywalled, up at The Hindustan Times. Here’s a quote from the Reactor interview:

I tried to sabotage any sense of a just-so story about history, any definitive “this is how it went and this is how we got there”, because I find that not only bori

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	The Saint of Bright Doors 3.65 avg rating — 6,985 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rakesfall 3.30 avg rating — 1,346 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dharmas - On Being Undone by a Light Breeze (Future Fiction Book 12) by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Guido Salto (Illustrator), Francesco Verso (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ion Unnatural 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El umbral y el dique 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2023 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	See the Elephant, Issue 4, Beyond Death by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Dennis Danvers, Maria Haskins (Goodreads Author) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2017, Issue 44.1 by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Chekwube O. Danladi, Angela Pelster did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Vajra Chandrasekera wrote a new blog post RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction I am honoured, delighted, and deeply moved to be able to say that my second novel Rakesfall has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. See Read more of this blog post »
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“Remember, son,” Mother-of-Glory says, compensating with pomposity for her deficits of piety or affection. “The only way to change the world is through intentional, directed violence.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors

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“Every time I led him to the right place at the right time, I first quietly eliminated all the places and times that were wrong. Luck is only someone else’s labour.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors

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“I voted for peace, even though peace seems like the kind of science fiction that posits a future utopia, sleek and bald and rational, without satisfactory explanation of how we get to there from here, this convoluted, bloody *here*, except by appealing to our better natures at critical moments, a long arc bending towards justice. It seems like science fiction, wrapped in a pulp cover.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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Short Story of the Month - August 2025

'The Translator, at Low Tide' by Vajra Chandrasekera

9 votes, 45.0%

'His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light' by Mimi Mondal

4 votes, 20.0%

Agni' by Nibedita Sen

3 votes, 15.0%

AirBody' by Sameem Siddiqui

2 votes, 10.0%

'Interstate Mohinis' by M.L. Krishnan

2 votes, 10.0%

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