Vajra Chandrasekera Wins 2025 Le Guin Fiction Prize:
Sri Lankan writer Vajra Chandrasekera has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for his speculative novel Rakesfall. The $25,000 award recognises a single author whose imaginative fiction explores critical themes such as power, freedom, equity, and humanity’s place in the world. Praised as “an extraordinary achievement in science fiction,” the novel cements Chandrasekera’s reputation as one of the most powerful new voices in global speculative fiction.
