Edmundo Ribadeneira Meneses (Ibarra, November 2, 1920 – February 14, 2004) was an Ecuadorian writer and university professor.

He was awarded the Ecuadorian National Prize in Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo" in 1988 by the President of Ecuador.Obituary of Edmundo Ribadeneira (Spanish article)

He was the president of the House of Ecuadorian Culture from 1979-1988. He was a university professor and columnist for El Comercio.

Works La moderna novela ecuatoriana (The Modern Ecuadorian Novel) (1958) El destierro es redondo (Exile is Round) La novela italiana de la segunda posguerra (The Italian Novel of the Second World War) (1959)

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