"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug..."

Award-Winning Novelist & Essayist

WEAVING
SILENCE INTO
STORIES.

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Selected Works

2024

Just Another Bomb Blast

Just Another Bomb Blast
Fiction
2023

Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine
Essay Collection
2021

Parallel Horizons

Parallel Horizons
Speculative Fiction
2019

Letters to No One

Letters to No One
Memoir
SANDARUWAN MADDUMA BANDARA

Sandaruwan founded the Young Writers Association in Sri Lanka. In 1994 he published his first novel, St. Anarchy's College, at the age of 15. Several of his works have appeared in Sri Lankan & US literary journals. He won the Sri Lanka National Youth Awards in 1994 and 1995 for poetry and short story writing.

Philosophy

Literature should be a mirror that doesn't just reflect, but distorts enough to show the truth.

Recognition

Pulitzer Finalist (2023), Booker Longlist (2021), Nebula Award Winner.

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