Vajra Chandrasekera

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Vajra Chandrasekera (17 August, 1979 in Colombo) [1] is a Sri Lankan author known for his work in fantasy.

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Recognition

Chandrasekera's novel The Saint of Bright Doors won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 2023 [2] and the 2024 Crawford Award, [3] and is a finalist for the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [4] As well, his role as an editor for Strange Horizons during the six consecutive years that it was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine meant that he was "one of a group of approximately eighty people who were collectively nominated (...), depending on how you choose to do the arithmetic and whether you count group nominations as legitimate in the first place, which not everyone does", with the result that in 2023 he humorously described himself as "7.5% of a Hugo nominee by volume". [5]

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has praised his "ability to weave disparate narratives into a kaleidoscopic whole with satisfying conclusions." [6]

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References

  1. Summary Bibliography: Vajra Chandrasekera at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; retrieved June 28, 2024
  2. Vajra Chandrasekera, at Science Fiction Writers of America ; retrieved June 28, 2024
  3. "Chandrasekera Wins Crawford". Locus magazine. March 4, 2024.
  4. 2024 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved June 28, 2024
  5. Decades of Aspiration: A Conversation with Vajra Chandrasekera, by Arley Sorg; at Clarkesworld ; published June 2023 (issue 201); retrieved June 28, 2024
  6. Chandrasekera, Vajra, by James Machell, in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (editors: John Clute and David Langford. Reading: Ansible Editions, updated 24 June 2024. Web. Accessed 28 June 2024.