Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Javier Cárcamo (born January 25, 1980) is a Guatemalan novelist and visual artist.

[1] Alongside the muralist Jorge Corleto and other artists, the murals that illustrate the history of art, in the walls of the Popular University of Guatemala, declared as Cultural Heritage of Guatemala, by the Instituto de Antropología e Historia (Institute of Anthropology and History).

He was born in the suburbs of Guatemala City and studied in the Roberto Cabrera[3] night school of plastic arts, of the Popular University of Guatemala.

Cárcamo worked alongside artists such as the muralist Jorge Corleto,[4] the painter Francisco Escobedo and the sculptor Byron Ramírez.

[6] As a novelist, he has published "Words that you would never dedicate" (Palabras que Nunca Dedicarías), in the year 2003, "What I Wrote While You Were Hiding" (Lo que escribí mientras te escondías), (2008) and "The Apotheosis of the Stones" (2019), a psychological and gothic novel.