Iván Carvajal Aguirre (born 1948 in San Gabriel, Ecuador) is an

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

ian 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 Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

, Ecuador, and works as a Professor at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) (English: ''Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador'') is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito, Ecuador. History The university opened in the fall of 1946, with Carlo ...

. He directs ''País Secreto'' magazine and is project director o
Corporación Cultural Orogenia
Most of his work is devoted to poetry, though recently he has published some of his reflections on Ecuadorian poets ("A la zaga del animal imposible") and culture and politics in Ecuador ("¿Volver a tener patria?").

Bibliography

*"Poemas de un mal tiempo para la lírica". Colección Populibros, Universidad Central. Quito, 1980. *"Del avatar". Colección Letras del Ecuador, C.C.E. del Guayas, 1981. *"Los amantes de Sumpa". Vivavida. Quito, 1984. *"Parajes". Ediciones de la Universidad Católica, EDUC. Quito, 1984. (National Prize for Literature "Aurelio Espinosa Pólit”, 1983) *"Material de lectura, Iván Carvajal". Dirección de Literatura, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural UNAM. México, 1991. *"En los labios / la celada". Eskeletra Editorial. Quito, 1996. *"Ópera". Quito, 1997. (Non-commercial, limited edition of 300 numbered books). *"Inventando a Lennon". Ediciones Libri Mundi/Enrique Grosse-Luemern. Quito, 1997. *"Del avatar". Segunda Edición. Ediciones El Tábano. Quito, 1998. *"Los amantes de Sumpa". Second Edition. *"La ofrenda del cerezo". Ediciones Libri Mundi/Enrique Grosse-Luemern. Quito, 2000. *"Tentativa y zozobra. Antología 1970- 2000". Visor Libros. Madrid, 2001. *"La casa del furor". La Poesía, señor hidalgo. Barcelona, 2004. *"Topologías". Dance, music and poetry ''Performance'' at Teatro Bolívar. Quito, 2005. (DVD Format) *"A la zaga del animal imposible. Lecturas de la poesía ecuatoriana del siglo XX". Serie Estudios Literarios y Culturales. Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión. Quito, 2005. *"¿Volver a tener patria?". In “La cuadratura del círculo – cuatro ensayos sobre la cultura ecuatoriana”. Corporación Cultural Orogenia. Quito, 2006.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carvajal, Ivan 1948 births Living people People from San Gabriel, Ecuador Ecuadorian male poets Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador 20th-century Ecuadorian male writers