Victoria De Stefano

Victoria de Stefano (21 June 1940 – 6 January 2023) was an Italo-Venezuelan writer, philosopher, and educator, best known for her work as a novelist and essayist.

Early life and education Victoria de Stefano was born in Rimini, Italy, in 1940, and moved to Venezuela with her family in 1946. She reflects this experience in Su vida, a collection of autobiographical texts published in 2019.

She studied at the Instituto Politécnico Educacional. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in 1962.

Exile De Stefano, her husband Pedro Duno and their two sons went into exile at the end of 1962. De Stefano and Duno later separated.

De Stefano died in Caracas on 6 January 2023, at the age of 82.

Publications De Stefano's works include:

El desolvido (1971), Sartre y el marxismo (1975) La noche llama la noche (1985), Poesía y Modernidad, Baudelaire (1984) El lugar del escritor (1990) Cabo de vida (1993) Historias de la marcha a pie (1997) Lluvia (Barcelona: Candaya, 2002) Paleografías (2010) Historias de la marcha a pie (Reed. 2013) Su vida (El Taller Blanco Ediciones, Bogotá. 2019 ) Venimos, vamos (Planeta, 2019)

Prizes De Stefano won the following prizes:

Premio Municipal de Ensayo (1984) Finalist in the Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1999) Premio Municipal de Novela (2006).