Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén is a Peruvian poet award winner World Literature "Andres Bello" version poetry, 2009 in Venezuela, this poet has been declared living cultural Heritage of the Nation by the National Institute of Culture (INC) of the Peruvian republic.
He studied journalism and law at the National University of Trujillo.
Garrido Chalén is one of the present representatives of the North Group that was born in Trujillo city in the first half of the twentieth century.