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Vajra Chandrasekera

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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

Fructidor: Secrets and Gifts

I’m back on the island. It is raining. The water in the air relieves me: I can feel my hair sigh. It has been a month since my last confession, so this will be a rounding up and rounding off. This is my harvest. These were the fruits of my season.

Recent interviews, in case you missed them: I spoke to Between the Covers, DEATH // Sentence and the South Asia Review of Books.

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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

“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

“That’s not how laws work, son,” she says. “A visible law is a ploy, a little play. A mummery in waiting, waiting for you to become interesting. Never give them a reason to care who you are.”
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