Aleksandar Gatalica (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Гаталица; born 1964) is a Serbian writer, critic and translator, best known for his novel The Great War, for which he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year.

[3] He worked as editor of the Pages on world literature (Danas daily), editor of Blic knjiga publishing company, editor of Serbian PEN Centre editions, art director of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre and first president of National Library of Serbia Foundation.

Gatalica is also noted as editor of several anthologies in Serbian and other languages.

A noted translator, Gatalica translated works of authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and pioneerly translatated great part of ancient poets, such as: Sappho, Mimnermus, Solon, Archilochus, Hipponax and Anacreon.

In 2016 Gatalica conducted a series of interviews with contemporary Serbian authors for Radio Television of Serbia.