César Guardia Mayorga (Ayacucho, Peru, 1906 -Lima, 1983) was a Peruvian writer, philosopher and university professor.
He has contributed to Quechua literature with poetry and linguistic studies.
Guardia Mayorga was born in Ayacucho, and then moved with his family to the city of Arequipa.
In Arequipa, he attended high school and then studied Philosophy at Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa.
In 2020, the researcher Óscar Huamán Águila received the Casa de las Américas Prize for his a thesis on the work of Guardia Mayorga.