Antonio di Benedetto (2 November 1922 – 10 October 1986) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer and journalist.

Di Benedetto began writing and publishing stories in his adolescence, inspired by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Luigi Pirandello.

El silenciero (1964, The Silentiary) is noteworthy for expressing his intense abhorrence of noise, and was followed by Las suicidas (1969, The Suicides).

He travelled widely and won numerous awards, but never acquired a level of worldwide fame comparable to other Latin American writers, perhaps because his work was not translated to many languages.

Zama was adapted to film in 2017 by Argentine director Lucrecia Martel and received critical acclaim.