Carlos Calderón Fajardo (1946–2015) was a Peruvian journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
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, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar as judges.
[1] His stories have been included in many Peruvian-short-story anthologies edited in Peru, France and Germany.