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Vajra Chandrasekera


Sri Lanka

Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static, and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His debut novel  is THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS. He blogs at vajra.me and is @_vajra on Twitter.
 

Awards: Nebula (2023)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
 
Novels
   The Saint of Bright Doors (2023)
   Rakesfall (2024)
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Anthologies edited
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Books containing stories by Vajra Chandrasekera
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Deep Dream (2024)
Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art
(Twelve Tomorrows)
edited by
Indrapramit Das
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Grimdark Magazine Issue #38 (2024)
(Grimdark Magazine, book 38)

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Awards
2024 Locus Award for Best First Novel : The Saint of Bright Doors
2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel : The Saint of Bright Doors
2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel : The Saint of Bright Doors

Award nominations
2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction (shortlist) : The Saint of Bright Doors
2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction (nominee) : The Saint of Bright Doors
2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Saint of Bright Doors
2024 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Saint of Bright Doors
2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer (nominee) : The Saint of Bright Doors
2021 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Translator, at Low Tide


Vajra Chandrasekera recommends
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Asunder (2024)
Kerstin Hall
"Karys Eska keeps making desperate pacts just to stay alive, and every single one of them goes wrong. Asunder is a fast-paced dark fantasy, beautifully, bloodily eldritch, but also a political crime thriller in a setting where even divinity is violently contested. Karys finds all her debts-her gods, her families, and her clients-coming due at once, and the hardest people to trust are the ones closest to her."
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The Spice Gate (2024)
Prashanth Srivatsa
"The Spice Gate is a grand epic fantasy with a fiery core of rage against injustice. This is a book you can taste, where flavour itself is a kind of magic, but also symbolic of power, trade, and violence. A critique of caste, religion, and hierarchy and the way they constrain our lives and imaginations, that takes us through the gamut of forms of resistance, from art to exile to rebellion, and reminds us: sometimes you have to rise up not only against the priests but their gods."
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No One Will Come Back For Us (2023)
Premee Mohamed
"No One Will Come Back for Us does an incredible job showcasing Premee Mohamed's short fiction, vivid anatomical studies of anguished human hearts opened up so wide and vulnerable in worlds far too big, far too broken, too far gone. Stories of what people will do for each other, do to each other, out of love and pride and cruelty. This is contemporary cross-genre horror at its finest, having stolen organs from fantasy and science fiction alike to incorporate them, pulsating and alive, into its own body. It's alive, it's behind you, and it needs your eyeballs. Give them immediately."

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