Đuro Vilović (11 December 1889 – 22 December 1958) was a Yugoslav publicist, one of the most widely read and controversial writers of Croatian interwar literature and a member of the Chetniks.
[1][2] Initially, a Croatian nationalist and a Roman Catholic priest, Vilović left the Roman Catholic church, joining a Serbian nationalist Chetnik movement during World War II and becoming a close ally of Draža Mihailović, for which he was sentenced to 7 years in prison at the Belgrade Process in 1946 by the new communist regime.
[1][2] Vilović completed gymnasium high school in Split and theology program in Zadar.
[3] Between 1913 and 1915 he was a Roman Catholic priest after which he went to study philosophy in Vienna.
During the Interwar period, he was one of the most popular writers in Yugoslavia.