Iván Carvajal Aguirre (1948 – 6 September 2026) was an Ecuadorian poet, philosopher and writer. He was born in San Gabriel, Carchi province. In 1984 he received Ecuador's National Prize for Literature, the , for his work "Parajes". In February 2013 he won the Premio a las Libertades Juan Montalvo.
Carvajal lived in Quito and worked as a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He directed País Secreto magazine and was project director of Corporación Cultural Orogenia.
Most of his work is devoted to poetry, though he also published some reflections on Ecuadorian poets ("A la zaga del animal imposible") and culture and politics in Ecuador ("¿Volver a tener patria?").
Carvajal died on 6 September 2026, at the age of 78.
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