Victoria de Stefano (21 June 1940 – 6 January 2023) was an Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist, philosopher and educator.

Victoria de Stefano was born in Rimini, Italy in 1940, and moved to Venezuela with her family in 1946.

She recounts this experience in Su vida, a collection of autobiographical texts published in 2019.

[3] De Stefano, her husband Pedro Duno and their two sons went into exile at the end of 1962.

[4] They lived in Havana, Cuba; Algeria; Switzerland; Paris, France; and Sitges, Spain.