Carlos Herrera, writer and diplomat from Arequipa, born in 1961, is one of the most important narrators of Peruvian literature in recent generations. In the 1980s, he took part in the activities of the Eclosión group in Arequipa. At the end of that decade he published his first book of short stories Morgana (1988), and in 1995 the novel Blanco y Negro. La razón contradictoria de Ulises Garcia (republished in 2003 and 2021). Later works include Las musas y los muertos (1997), Crueldad del ajedrez (1999), Crónicas del argonauta ciego (2002 and 2019), Gris. Las vidas de la penumbra (2004), Historia de Manuel de Masías, el hombre que creó el rocoto relleno y cocinó para el diablo (2005 and 2013), Claridad tan obscura (2011), Dime, monstruo (with illustrations by José Tola, 2014) and Horrores minúsculos (2022). As a diplomat he has held posts in France, Ecuador, the United States, UNESCO and the Netherlands. He is currently Director General for Cultural Affairs at the Peruvian Foreign Ministry.