Carlos Calderón Fajardo (1946-2015) was a

Peruvian Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian p ...

journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He worked as a sociologist at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic Church, being the oldest private ...

. In 1974 he won first place in the José María Arguedas Story Contest. In 1981 he won the Unanue Novel Competition with his novel ''La colina de los árboles''. In 1984 he won the Gaviota Roja Novel Prize for ''Así es la pena en el paraíso''. In 1985 he won the ''Hispamérica'' Best Short Story Prize, organized by the University of Maryland, with Roa Bastos,

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and

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as judges. In the year 2006 he was a finalist for the Tusquets Award for his novel ''El fantasma nostálgico''.Carlos Calderón Fajardo - LIBROS PERUANOS - Autores
/ref> His stories have been included in many Peruvian-short-story anthologies edited in Peru, France and Germany. He taught at the National Engineering University for 25 years. From 2006 he began to publish two or three books a year. At the time of his death he was writing full-time, half the year at his home in Punta Negra and the other half in Lima.

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