Vajra Chandrasekera
@vajra.me
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) Colombo/New York. https://vajra.me
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RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"What I like most about the speculative is the joy... The exuberance, the joie de lire, the fucking about. It’s such a fun form to work in. You can free yourselves to any degree that you please from constraints that otherwise tend to be invisibly ubiquitous, such as physics, location, and selfhood."
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"If we can agree that art is political, it should follow that it matters quite deeply what the art’s politics are."
great interview with @vajra.me about Rakesfall!!
great interview with @vajra.me about Rakesfall!!
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"If we can agree that art is political, it should follow that it matters quite deeply what the art’s politics are."
great interview with @vajra.me about Rakesfall!!
great interview with @vajra.me about Rakesfall!!
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it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
it was an absolute pleasure to interview the brilliant and thoughtful @vajra.me, whose writing frequently leaves me floored. the le guin prize is so well deserved
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Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Jerry Pinto at Mumbai LitLive talking about the new generation of Sri Lankan writers like @vajra.me using SFFH to comment on life, society, and politics on the island 🇱🇰
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Shehan Karunatilaka in conversation with Jerry Pinto at Mumbai LitLive talking about the new generation of Sri Lankan writers like @vajra.me using SFFH to comment on life, society, and politics on the island 🇱🇰
Deeply saddened and more than a little shocked that we've lost Celeste Rita Baker. I had the privilege of editing her once—do read “De MotherJumpers” in Strange Horizons! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Deeply saddened and more than a little shocked that we've lost Celeste Rita Baker. I had the privilege of editing her once—do read “De MotherJumpers” in Strange Horizons! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
dick cheney died? congrats everyone
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
dick cheney died? congrats everyone
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Gang, Archita Mittra needs our help. She's a vital critical voice, a great writer of fiction, and more importantly she's part of the community we've built and are building here. Let's help her reach a place where she can carry on being all of those things, and write whatever she has for us next. 🙏
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
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November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Gang, Archita Mittra needs our help. She's a vital critical voice, a great writer of fiction, and more importantly she's part of the community we've built and are building here. Let's help her reach a place where she can carry on being all of those things, and write whatever she has for us next. 🙏
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Thank you to everyone who's donated & shared so far for your generosity. But Archita is at 70% to her goal & donations have slowed. Please help her get some security in this terrible time if you can.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thank you to everyone who's donated & shared so far for your generosity. But Archita is at 70% to her goal & donations have slowed. Please help her get some security in this terrible time if you can.
Congrats World Fantasy Award winners and nominees!!
Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of the World Fantasy Awards!
World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2024 were presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, held October 30 – November 2, 2025 in Brighton, UK. The Life Achievement …
locusmag.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Congrats World Fantasy Award winners and nominees!!
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NOVEMBER 4 - 9
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November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This week!
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Vajra Chandrasekera has officially been awarded the 2025 iteration of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and our editor, Ayesha Channa, interviewed him about his experience.
Interview Link: tasavvurnama.com/vajra-chandr...
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
Interview Link: tasavvurnama.com/vajra-chandr...
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Vajra Chandrasekera has officially been awarded the 2025 iteration of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and our editor, Ayesha Channa, interviewed him about his experience.
Interview Link: tasavvurnama.com/vajra-chandr...
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
Interview Link: tasavvurnama.com/vajra-chandr...
🔮- #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
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The Butterfly and the Crab
Cancer and Krapp.
vajra.me
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
vajra.me/2025/10/30/t...
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The ceasefire is not increasingly fragile. It is non-existent, as Israel continues its genocidal campaign.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The ceasefire is not increasingly fragile. It is non-existent, as Israel continues its genocidal campaign.
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"Rakesfall is an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.” Congratulations Vajra Chandrasekera ( @vajra.me ) on the award of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
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Vajra Chandrasekera | “There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination, but it must be made so”
Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, currently visiting New York as one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York...
polity.lk
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"Rakesfall is an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.” Congratulations Vajra Chandrasekera ( @vajra.me ) on the award of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
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Enchanting, playful, invigorating. Vajra compels his exquisite prose to contort and cavort against the borders of the page. The kind of prose you savor on your tongue, its ideas ten rich courses in three. I’m only 100 pages in and I’m just blown away. Please read it.
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Enchanting, playful, invigorating. Vajra compels his exquisite prose to contort and cavort against the borders of the page. The kind of prose you savor on your tongue, its ideas ten rich courses in three. I’m only 100 pages in and I’m just blown away. Please read it.
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Totally deserved. You should check it out. Yes YOU
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Totally deserved. You should check it out. Yes YOU
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I have just finished the audiobook and it is a sumptuous experience that propels you through infinity and beyond! Highly recommended.
Now I need to buy the physical book so I can re-read and make notes.
Now I need to buy the physical book so I can re-read and make notes.
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I have just finished the audiobook and it is a sumptuous experience that propels you through infinity and beyond! Highly recommended.
Now I need to buy the physical book so I can re-read and make notes.
Now I need to buy the physical book so I can re-read and make notes.
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An incredibly well crafted story by @vajra.me -- from 2019?!-- that feels so au courant, as if it were written through the lens of this precise moment future-sf.com/fiction/apol...
Apologia
Of course they sent a poet. He was quick on his feet, electric, stepping lightly through the portals we opened for him into and across the committee's carefully Chosen Moments of history. He would onl...
future-sf.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An incredibly well crafted story by @vajra.me -- from 2019?!-- that feels so au courant, as if it were written through the lens of this precise moment future-sf.com/fiction/apol...
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week, there’s a special section on the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction, with links to a collection of reviews for the winner, Rakesfall.
Intergalactic Mixtape #25
This week the big news was the announcement of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for fiction, which I’ve dedicated a secton of B-Side to! There’s also the...
buttondown.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week, there’s a special section on the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction, with links to a collection of reviews for the winner, Rakesfall.
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🎉ICYMI!🎉
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎉ICYMI!🎉
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
We are DELIGHTED that @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is the winner of the 2025 @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction!
Huge congratulations Vajra and to all of the other finalists!
See Vajra's acceptance speech here: https://geni.us/ursulak25
Buy the book: https://geni.us/rakesfall
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An ethics class I'm taking just introduced me to this incredible short story by the amazing @vajra.me. Please read this. I feel changed from having done so. Thank you Vajra. Truly: future-sf.com/fiction/apol...
Apologia
Of course they sent a poet. He was quick on his feet, electric, stepping lightly through the portals we opened for him into and across the committee's carefully Chosen Moments of history. He would onl...
future-sf.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
An ethics class I'm taking just introduced me to this incredible short story by the amazing @vajra.me. Please read this. I feel changed from having done so. Thank you Vajra. Truly: future-sf.com/fiction/apol...
Reposted by Vajra Chandrasekera
Archita is 66% to her goal--please keep sharing & donating if you can to help her get some security in this awful time. Thank you to everyone who's sharing & donating for your generosity.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
www.gofundme.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Archita is 66% to her goal--please keep sharing & donating if you can to help her get some security in this awful time. Thank you to everyone who's sharing & donating for your generosity.