Chandrasekera

About The Author

Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His novels The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall have between them won the Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and Otherwise Awards, and been selected as New York Times Notable Books of 2023 and 2024. He is one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in many publications including Clarkesworld, West Branch, and The Los Angeles Times. He has worked as a fiction editor for Strange Horizons and The Deadlands, and as a contest judge for the Dream Foundry and the Salam Award. He is online at vajra.me.

Books by Chandrasekera

Rakesfall: Winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
By Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story.

Annelid and Leveret met as children in the ...
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The Saint of Bright Doors

Shortlisted for the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel!

By Chandrasekera
WINNER of the Nebula Award for Best Novel | WINNER of the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award | WINNER of the Locus Award for First Novel | WINNER of the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Adult Novel | Nominated for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction | Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best ...
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