Iván Carvajal


Iván Carvajal Aguirre is an Ecuadorian poet, philosopher and writer. In 1984 he received Ecuador's National Prize for Literature, the "Aurelio Espinosa Pólit" prize, for his work entitled "Parajes". In February 2013 he won the Premio a las Libertades Juan Montalvo.
Carvajal lives in Quito, Ecuador, and works as a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He directs País Secreto magazine and is project director of .
Most of his work is devoted to poetry, though recently he has published some of his reflections on Ecuadorian poets and culture and politics in Ecuador.